Post #2471340
2026-03-25 20:38 UTC
@nils@mastodon.bsd.cafe @mxp@mastodon.acm.org I have, actually; I bought a GreenArray dev board 10 years ago, after some random guy I met at a CCC event talked me into it.
It definitely felt like the work of a genius, meaning I felt way too dumb to do anything useful with it.
I love concatenative languages, I've played with factor and uiua. I think the semantic color is a stroke of genius, and also a giant middle finger to colorblind hackers.
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@nils@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-25 21:18
@max@mastodon.xolus.net @mxp@mastodon.acm.org OMG that's awesome! I considered getting one at some point 2-3 years ago to try it out, but they're not cheap. Instead I was able to try colorforth baremetal on an old 32 bit laptop with Howerd's ColorForth fork [1]. I love concatenative languages as well, I think the stroke of genius behind the color is less the color but more the fact that you are already doing the compiler's work by setting the right color, further improving compiler speeds. I've come accross colorless ColorForth as well, RetroForth is not exactly a ColorForth, but it does use "sigils" as compiler hints. [1]: https://github.com/Howerd/colorForth