Forth keeps intriguing me. I've written the snake game in forth. The principle of continuously building on more simple words is elegant. But I keep failing to find any "real" programs in forth

I'm aware that uxn exists and varavara is another thing that I keep coming back to. Is this forth? Kinda. I think it qualifies.

In my head, forth is the perfect starting point for a "degrowth" computing system. Maybe similar to CollapseOS. an ecosystem of commandline programs to get stuff done. Does anthing like this exist?

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👤 AnoikisNomads

2023-09-11 · 8 months ago · 👍 drh3xx, stack

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🐐 drh3xx · 2023-09-12 at 11:04:

I've not tried Forth before but it seems quite popular in geminispace so I might have to give it a try sometime. Thanks for mention of CollapseOS it and DuskOS sound really interesting :)

🚀 stack [mod] · 2023-09-12 at 12:35:

forth itself is an ecosystem of command line programs. You define new commands as needed

👤 AnoikisNomads [OP] · 2023-09-12 at 15:24:

@stack what I'm saying is programs that do some useful work seem to be next to nonexistant - or I'm looking entirely in the wrong place. let's say a word processor, a graphics program, a Gemini browser.

people seem to write their own Forth and then quit. This is a neat and nerdy exercise and I mean no insult, but has little utility.

🚀 stack [mod] · 2023-09-12 at 15:38:

@AnoikisNomads: that is true. I truly enjoy writing forths to test different implementation ideas, and then I get bored when it's time to actually do something _with_ a forth. This time around I am polishing up my nforth to do cgi scripting and maybe interactive fiction stuff. I hope.