Re:Forth – is it still relevant?
by NetMageSCW on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:24AM
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C is pretty low level… and yet.
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Re:Forth – is it still relevant?
by tov_objorkin on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:43AM
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Disagree, there is no types in Forth, only cells. User is acting as a compiler. Comparing to C, imagine that every keyword like for/while/break is implemented as a macros using setjmp/longjmp. And this is a strong part of the language, flexibility but without any guarantees.