Forth has almost no syntax, which leads to every project becoming some kind of domain specific DSL. This is not necessarily a problem, but it leaves Forth without a strong sense of identity as a programming language. This is my opinion, of course.
The ideal system is optimized for its problem domain. That means not only adding needed functionality, but also dropping unneeded functionality, and tweaking functionality to better fit the problem at hand. That’s not surprising for a system that shines when running with very little memory.
That’s different from, say C++. Nobody says clang, gcc and Visual C++ are “a C++”.
If they were philosophically similar to Forths and Lisps, those writing programs in them would be happy to change int promotion rules, operator precedence, vtable layout, etc, and different compilers would make different choices there.
I have been considering doing an Ask HN to see what people felt should be included on an initial ‘release’ or showing of a language. Maybe I should.
Feel more Forth has no syntax - just space separated words defined either in assembly or other forth words