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by tluyben2 2846 days ago
You would still need the compiler to be written in progsbase too: is it? As I am not quite sure (and you cannot gamble on it) that Java and Java tooling is still there in 100 years. Which then brings you back to Haxe ; kind of the same gamble there but that is open source which makes it longer lived generally anyway.

A language for the ages would be a Forth imho; you can write the language on the back of a beermath and it takes mere hours to implement on whatever system.

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> You would still need the compiler to be written in progsbase too: is it?

Currently no, but the progsbase language is very simple and contains only well-known constructs. So creating a compiler is very simple, it would take only a few days. This is like the point you make about forth, except forth contains less well known constucts.

> open source

The progsbase specification is also open: https://docs.progsbase.com/