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Nope, some obscure embedded or toy stuff doesn't count as real software that matters to people. Even Haskell, bless its academic ivory-tower soul, has real-time

Nope, some obscure embedded or toy stuff doesn't count as real software that matters to people. Even Haskell, bless its academic ivory-tower soul, has real-time video games, IDEs and neural networks, not to mention tons of websites, written in it. And Forth has what, some device drivers and hobby/learning stuff? Point amply proven, thank you.

mtrower 7y ago
You're kidding, right? There was a time when a good chunk of the world ran on Sun... even PowerMac was not such a small name until recently. I'd like to see how well your video game runs when the software responsible for configuring and interfacing with your hardware and booting your OS is missing; tell me then how much that software doesn't matter. Have you ever tried to actually write any of this type of software that you're so casually dismissing as not "real"? ps. Websites? Really?
mickduprez 7y ago
Did you look at some of those links? Please don't confuse 'popularity' or user numbers as being the measurement of what is 'real software'. I'm sure anyone involved in any of the aerospace projects would argue the Forth software used matters a great deal and is very real! A few more links to meditate on https://www.forth.com/resources/who-uses-forth/ https://www.forth.com/resources/who-uses-forth/