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0 pointsjacobush7y ago0 comments

Forth... so alluring, yet so scary. I am afraid doing it will make me do great things no one else can understand and maintain. :)

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sifoobar7y ago· 2 in thread

I've been working on one of my own that attempts to bridge some of the gaps between Forth and the rest of the world, feel free to take her out for a spin:

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl

srean7y ago

I presume you would know of factor, curious what you think of it.

sifoobar7y ago

Sure, I've played around with it; still too complex and too static due to being natively compiled.

I've mostly given up on the idea of driving applications from a higher level language, I much prefer having C as a foundation and then embedding a more dynamic language that I have full control over. I like to call it reverse FFI :)

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akkartik7y ago

I wrote about this recently: https://plforums.org/practice/minimal-features-required-for-...

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