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Have you tried collaborating with Forth? There's a lot of documented history of people doing so in industry when it was actually used, and more recently I've u
by veltas 1y ago
Have you tried collaborating with Forth? There's a lot of documented history of people doing so in industry when it was actually used, and more recently I've usually found Forth codebases approachable and easy to follow.
Personally I think this is the pay-off for writing the code in the first place because Forth is very difficult to write in a clear way, if you actually manage to do it you've probably made it very clear to follow because otherwise it's hard to finish your project and make it work at all.
- lukan 1y ago"Have you tried collaborating with Forth?" No, I never did more than very simple experiments with Forth (which is why I started my comment with "what I heard"). "because Forth is very difficult to write in a clear way" But that pretty much means, that the average programmer will have problems with collaborating.
- veltas 1y agoNot for simple collaboration or modification, which is most of what you want to do. But yes any serious development is difficult in Forth, period.