Author here! This was a super fun project that consumed over a month of evenings and weekends. In the past couple of days I finished the examples, and I'm glad to finally put it out there.

I don't quite remember how I fell into the Forth rabbit hole, but I think I first heard about Collapse OS. Then I read yosefk's "My history with Forth & stack machines" [0], which is actually very critical of Forth. But when I saw if/then/else being defined in Forth itself, I was hooked.

I've always been fascinated by the idea of having a minimal kernel of primitives from which "everything" can be built. Before Forth, I had only seen that in the form of Lisp's "Maxwell equations of software", which is cool, but always left me a little disappointed because it is too abstract to build something that you can actually interact with - you can't break out of its esoteric nature. The same applies to brainf*ck and other extremely small environments.

With Forth, however, you can start from almost nothing, and start adding things like ifs, loops, strings, etc., things that look more like your day-to-day programming. I find that there's a lot of beauty in that.

Anyways, I hope the examples in the repository do not look too awful to experienced Forth programmers :D

[0] https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...