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Comment by MaxBarraclough

5 years ago

> you'll probably end up near Forth in the design space anyway

Good point. Related to this, FORTH can be treated as a target platform for compilers, although I don't think there are many mature compilers that do this.

I wonder if CollapseOS will ever seriously target heavyweight platforms like x64 (and not just through emulation with libz80). I suppose that's out scope, but it would open the door to JIT.

> you may as well just use Forth

Presumably it could be a little more compact if a less human-readable variation were used, no? FORTH uses DROP and THEN, which could be shortened at the cost of readability.