I came into Forth with 32 years of mixed experience from Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, C++, C, Java, Perl, Python, Clojure, Scala and more; it's difficult for me to judge anything from that perspective.

I've never written a standard Forth program in my life though, never installed any other implementation. The second I was introduced to Forth, it clicked; Lisp took me much, much longer to get by comparison.

Like I said, I'm not very much into rebuilding what has already been built better by someone else. Anyone who's written any amount of code is bound to have own ideas, and the nice thing about Forth as a substrate is that doesn't come with that many ideas of its own.

I've written a few blog posts explaining design choices (https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/blog/blob/master/forthy...), there's more interesting stuff to come now that the pieces are falling into place; I've only been working on Snabel for a couple of months.