How good is forth?

It's not even in the top three languages

Useful for amusement or recreational programming only. Almost all modern languages surpass it for real productivity.

Its fun no real practical value exept possibly nano computers

>>61485002
Fun for small hobby projects. Nearly worthless for any commercial application. It qualifies as a write-only language. A week after you write anything of any complexity (or if someone else wrote it, 5 minutes ago), it's virtually impossible to understand enough of the structure of the program to make any significant changes.

>>61485002
It's a beautiful and fast language. It has low floor and high ceiling
>no real productivity
What this means? The problem are that people don't use it, not a language failure
>read only code
That's the stupidest thing ever, Forth is readable based on how you write it. Literally you create your compiler and use it

>>61485869
The goal though is to make a language that is so quick to write that you just rewrite everything every time. You just do everything from scratch. It's brilliant.

>>61485309

underrated

>>61486345
You should apply to Microsoft

>>61485002
Takes a lot of practice to read and write because the stack paradigm is not used in any popular language today.
It fits everywhere and it gives you enough power to write whatever you want even on 8bit micros. If a platform doesn't have an implementation available, you can just write your own in a weekend (see jonesforth).