Chuck Moore is a genius, and if any self-professed hacker has not dug into the language Forth (including creating an implementation of their own, which is a rite of passage to becoming an "intermediate" Forth programmer), then they have a special treat waiting for them. A lovely antidote, both in form and in practice, to the typical layers of shitcake philosophy that ultimately results in Electron apps ruling the world.

Reformatted, with inline figures and corrected references:

https://github.com/mietek/pol

> Of course I don't expect that you're in a position to choose a computer.

It's a little funny and a little sad, but this is as true today as it was back then, but for different reasons.

Small discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387120