I used to run a video sharing website written in Factor [2], sadly the server crashed a few weeks ago and I haven't recovered the data from the disk yet.
Factor feels more like a Scheme than a Forth to me when programming.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20111117015025/http://www.bluishc... [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20130118204336/http://tinyvid.tv/
Currently working on an ARM forth-idea with some scheme-ideas. There's this nagging intuition I have that there's a symbiosis between Lisp atom/Forth word and S-expression/Forth dictionary.
I have to get something going pretty quickly so I can't get too pure about the idea, as I don't want to get bogged down in the necessary GC yet.
Thanks for your reply, it already made me more interested in Factor from an implementation standpoint, even if I wouldn't use it on x86.
Theoretically you would have the HLL incredibleness of a lisp with the low level genius of Forth. I asked some old timers if the idea made sense and they were silent in specifics but not discouraging. Which would indicate to me they think it is a huge learning opportunity for me one way or the other. Have you done any deeper analysis?