I suspect, for many, that implementing a forth is more interesting than using a forth.
replyOnce you start writing really complex programs the system gets painful and hard. But trivial things are easy, and the consistency is so appealing.
It is the bootstrap that makes it interesting.
replyCreating 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.
Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.
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