This might be the baader meinhof phenomenon since I've been writing one, but does it seem like there are a lot of Forth-related things happening lately?
There has definitely been 5+ posts over the past few days relating to FORTH.
I love the language, it is fun to tinker with, but despite that I've never used it for anything practical. Almost all FORTH posts get an upvote from me, though my own recent submission about writing a simple FORTH-like interpreter sank without a trace:
I've seen a couple on Hackaday too! I didn't know if it was just me, because I've been writing a Forth compiler so I'm probably more likely to notice them.
It's part of a larger project that's not finished yet. First I made up a CPU architecture and wrote an assembler for it. Then I made an emulator for the machine. Then I wrote a Forth compiler targeting that assembly. Now I'm working on interactive dev tools, web-based emulator, polishing everything, etc, so other people will be able to use it.
Later on, a way to run it on hardware, probably some kind of FPGA / fast-microcontroller hybrid board.
