#forth
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #forth from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #forth
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 21:53 UTC13 uses by 13 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-27 21:53 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 21:53 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~868 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (32) · German (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (2) · French (1) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
When I was a teenager, I wrote a #Forth compiler, running on the BBC Micros we had at school. It had a code generation bug, which I didn't find until 20 years later. It was very much in "Baby's First Compiler" style: completely trivial unop
Nativity #Forth is now self-hosting. Here is the Forth source of the assembler that bootstraps it. The binary size of the assembler is 2 KB. That is 1/1000 the size of Hello World in Rust.
Xkcd has just posted this on Forth. https://xkcd.com/3277 #forth #xkcd
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