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Forth was influential, but it is somewhere between obsolete and niche. It is much more difficult to program in than even raw C, let alone C++ and offers no adva
by CyberDildonics 3y ago
Forth was influential, but it is somewhere between obsolete and niche. It is much more difficult to program in than even raw C, let alone C++ and offers no advantage in speed on modern hardware where memory access is the by far the highest priority.
- timbit42 3y agoWell modern processors are optimized for running C code. Try running C code on a Forth processor and see how slow it is compared to Forth.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoForth on a modern CPU is still going to be much faster than C on a Forth processor. It isn't even true that modern processors are "optimized for C code", they have stack instructions that are very fast and directly apply to forth.
- eschneider 3y agoIt’s still great if you’re experimenting/prototyping new chips and SoCs. Forth REPL is great for that, but yes, niche.