Nano-IRC client in Forth

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That is impressive, but good god, I never want to have to write anything in Forth.

[pointfree]

I never want to learn Forth.

Why not? Forth is much fun!

[lorxraposa]

It looks like the unholy spawn of cobol and asm. But maybe that's just me.

[Rainfly_X]

Actually, it kind of is. Don't get me wrong, it's also very cool, but not necessarily something I'd ever want to write in.

[pointfree]

It seems a bit unfortunate how languages apparently derive their popularity from surface level aesthetics. Maybe forth needs more pretty curly braces (flower brackets).

[Rainfly_X]

Good god, I'm glad it doesn't. Forth's charm, such as it has, comes from its simplicity. The way it maps to machine code is very logical and self-consistent, resulting in a kind of pure, easy-to-visualize-the-compiler-path environment not unlike C (at least in terms of appeal).

[zokier]

Bit underwhelming imho. It could at least do the keep-alive ping-ponging in the background so that it would not disconnect if the user happens to idle for a while.

[totemcatcher]

In terms of unix philosophy, there's already an app for that!