[bitwize]

I really wish techies would stop whinging about "bloat".

All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale. Forth lets Chuck Moore put something together quickly in very little code, that serves Chuck Moore's needs adequately well, but... Chuck Moore isn't the average person, let alone the average developer. Chuck Moore doesn't need, for example, a file system; why have one if you can just memorize the sector numbers for everything on disk?

A lot of the "bloat" in modern computing consists of things necessary in order to make computers tractable for ordinary people. This is as true for things like Electron[0] as it is for C and conventional operating systems vs. Forth on bare metal. And if technology doesn't work for people, it doesn't work.

[0] Electron has enabled a Cambrian explosion of cross-platform apps by vastly reducing the time and effort it takes to develop such an app. Developer effort is often the costliest part of software; by that metric, Electron has probably saved billions of dollars, despite consuming hundreds of megabytes that would otherwise be wasted anyway.

[Teckla]

All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale.

No, they're not.