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by 0x12 5397 days ago
Because they spent more time on the code than they do on the wrappings. Forth is a really neat, minimalist language, that minimalism is probably a selection criterion for the way people would look at the websites hosting this stuff. Likely they see it as just another mass storage device.

Personally I think we could do with a bit more of this and less eye candy, I've seen tons of really nicely packaged blog posts announcing some project or other only to see it founder a couple of months, weeks or sometimes even days later.

I'd much prefer people first building something and announcing it on a 'crappy' web page like this.

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Yes!