Yes, its used to bring up new hardware as its easy to write drivers for (See Open Firmware). If you look at https://github.com/dan4thewin/FreeForth2/blob/master

Yes, its used to bring up new hardware as its easy to write drivers for (See Open Firmware). If you look at https://github.com/dan4thewin/FreeForth2/blob/master/ff.asm https://github.com/dan4thewin/FreeForth2/blob/master/ff.asm You can see that the x86 registers are used to avoid SWAP instructions via register renaming. That's a sufficiently low level technique to qualify. The thing with Forth for me, is a lack of typing - you need to keep a model of the stack in your head at all times. It should be possible to build that in to a Forth compiler but I've yet to finish a prototype.