there's a myth I know where the true Forth enthusiasts end up making their programs so pure that they start needing their own special hardware (in one version,

there's a myth I know where the true Forth enthusiasts end up making their programs so pure that they start needing their own special hardware (in one version, I heard that machine words were all 13 bits), their own networking stack, their own communication apps. Until eventually they transcend into a second internet, populated only by forth hackers, where everything is optimally elegant. and that's why we don't hear from them anymore