Probably not. It turns out that it doesn't map to modern computer processors terribly well.
It's an amazing and elegant language, but anything that does register-to-register operations is always going to be faster than register-to-memory.
It's an amazing and elegant language, but anything that does register-to-register operations is always going to be faster than register-to-memory.
> slavapestov
... ok, fair enough: it probably is trivial for you, lol.
(For the uninitiated: Slava Pestov created Factor, a modern concatenatvie language which (IIRC) did a lot of innovative stuff regarding optimizations in that domain)
Whenever I work on compiling Joy code I have to fight the urge to just write Joy-in-Factor and lean on all that crunchy goodness.
(I wrote Joypy (mentioned in TFA), now Thun (someone took Joypy on PyPI so I renamed it) which includes interpreters in C, Nim, OCaml, and Prolog. I made a few feints at compiling Joy so far, but it's just kid's play compared to Factor. "I am but an egg.")
Probably yes.
FORTH is still used to bring up new silicon because of its tiny core, you only need a couple of working assembly instructions to bootstrap yourself into a working system, you could do this entirely in cache or a small static RAM if you don't have a working memory controller yet.
It is also used all over the place in embedded controllers, https://arduino-forth.com/ , http://www.piclist.com/techref/microchip/language/forths.htm , https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth , from PICs to ARMs and everything in between.
You won't see a lot of hype around it and repos tend to be old because they 'just work', typically a user of such a system would download it and customize it to the point that sharing it would be pointless, the whole idea is to extend the language to become the application.
I very much doubt it.
Not everything is web based and not everybody is part of the hype cycle.
Since you're asking 'anyone' one example should be enough to satisfy you with proof: every IBM Power series system has Open Firmware on it which you can boot into: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/0009-ESS?topic=asmi-power... . Note that that doesn't even mention Forth by name.
Also note that the world is a lot larger than just the English speaking part of it, and that bringing up new systems is usually transitory: as soon as you can bootstrap yourself out of a FORTH environment you do so because it is a bit limiting.
Finally, as long as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory Chandra is still online at least someone is using FORTH in production.
It's just one of many space missions where FORTH plays a role.
Yes I know some folks are trying to change this, e.g: