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On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 16:06:14 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:

> GNU Forth... I don't know enough about it to have an opinion.

https://gforth.org/manual/Forth-is-written-in-Forth.html

Forth is an odd beast. There is a very small engine that has to be built 
for the processor in question to handle words.

https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/tree/master/engine

gcc can handle that since it is C code.