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I don't think it's worth making a FORTH unless you plan to build an optimizing compiler better than what iForth, gForth, or VFX have done, open source and maint
by packetlost 3y ago
I don't think it's worth making a FORTH unless you plan to build an optimizing compiler better than what iForth, gForth, or VFX have done, open source and maintain it, or exclusively target microcontrollers. FORTH is a great "language" but the ecosystem is tiny and the tooling is pretty minimal.
- lelanthran 3y agoWell, yeah, I hear you. But consider that I didn't make lisp-like languages because I didn't find anything suitable. There were (and still are) lots of nice Lisp implementations when I made my variations over the years. It's the same with any language created by a single person: we aren't doing it so that we can use it in production (that's a bonus, if possible).
- packetlost 3y agoFair enough!
- hoosieree 3y agoI thought part of the reason people use forth is because they don't need or want the dependencies and complexity of a big ecosystem or lots of tooling.