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Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by coliveira on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:22AM (#45640346)
This is not a real issue, because the same thing can be said about C. No two C projects are the same, each has its own set of libraries, macros, types, etc.

I think the main problem is that Forth systems don't have a standard way of creating interfaces like C and other languages have. So the diversity of environments becomes a big issue because it's difficult to combine libraries from different sources.

Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by andoando on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:00AM (#45640727)
I think it goes beyond that no, because you can do meta programming with Forth
Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by jstimpfle on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:26AM (#45641266)
That's not right. C coders have no problem at all diving right into most other C codebases.