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by skissane 1885 days ago
Their implementation approach is interesting: they have their own custom Forth implementation, with a kernel written in assembly language (ARM, aarch64, x86_64 and ppc64le). Then Strand is written in a mixture of Forth and itself.
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I think this is very indicative of Winkelmann's philosophies about software in general. On his site he writes a little bit about why he thinks Forth is so important, and I think it makes for a good explanation of why he probably implemented Strand like this:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth...