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Agreed, there's a price to be paid for stepping off the well-trod path when it comes to dev tools/methodologies and OSes. The truth is that he'd have had a worse time in MacOS or Linux than in Windows, which is usually pretty fanatical about continuing to support old APIs and run old applications.

Also agreed that he isn't asking for help and doesn't appear to want it. Still, this sucks.

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To us outsiders it's really hard to understand what's actually happening here, but it almost seems like the whole thing could even be a net positive for him, he seems to really feel a need for a new direction.

But that could just be my lack of understanding of the forth mindset and culture and the benefits it brought him.

Forth obviously did bring him a lot of happiness, but Forth people always seem like they have trouble getting anyone else to understand what they're doing, and it must be kind of isolating to spend so much time on something so few people understand.

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