Wonderful piece by Tiffany Ng about the Forth programming language ...
... and Collapse OS, an operating system designed to run on low-power, minimally-capable microprocessors
I am totally gonna mess around learning some Forth this weekend
https://www.wired.com/story/forth-collapse-os-apocalypse-programming-language/
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@clive
Forth isn't something you "mess around" with. You've really gotta rewire your brain.
@jessesheidlower @clive “One does not mess around with Forth. Forth messes around with you!” But I’m sure you’ll love it, Clive. I learnt it back in the nineties. Fun thing: Postscript is very, very similar to Forth.
If you really want to go down a rabbit hole: there’s a short series on Medium from someone who built a Forth interpreter from scratch.
oh damn, I will check that out!! thank you