From the title alone I tought it will be another FORTH interpreter implementatio...

macintux · 2026-02-07T01:06:24 1770426384

There's another front page article right now with someone using it in a very cool way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918824

d3nit · 2026-02-07T02:05:27 1770429927

thanks, somehow I missed that.

jhbadger · 2026-02-07T02:06:18 1770429978

Yep, given that implementing Forth is so easy (easier even than implementing Lisp) pretty soon nearly every Forth programmer decides to take their turn doing it themselves.

stevekemp · 2026-02-07T07:06:29 1770447989

I suspect, for many, that implementing a forth is more interesting than using a forth.

Once you start writing really complex programs the system gets painful and hard. But trivial things are easy, and the consistency is so appealing.

pjmlp · 2026-02-07T08:25:00 1770452700

It is the bootstrap that makes it interesting.

Creating the required primitives in Assembly, and then the remaining userspace out from them.

Afterwards it is programming like most languages.

I have done it with Lisps though.

Also on 8 bit home computers it provided the feeling to be coding close to Assembly while being close enough to BASIC as high level language.

absynth · 2026-02-07T02:32:54 1770431574

Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.