Not to mention that Rust is not interactive and doesn't allow for dynamic, incremental development. Forth brings the rapid, extremely tight feedback loop one sees in Lisp or Smalltalk to hardware.
Comparing it to Rust is missing this point entirely. Finally, let's not forget that Forth has been empirically validated multiple times in this domain (e.g. NASA has used Forth on board satellites and spacecraft).
Rust is entirely unproven in the hardware/microcontroller space (some would say in general), so I tend to view posts like ekidd's ("for more complicated embedded work") as projecting/wishful thinking.
Good point: I was going to bring this up, but I already had in another post, and I didn't think anybody who wanted rust on their hardware wouldn't care, as they quite clearly liked compiled languages.
But this is a huge draw for Forth, speaking as a Lisp user.
Comparing it to Rust is missing this point entirely. Finally, let's not forget that Forth has been empirically validated multiple times in this domain (e.g. NASA has used Forth on board satellites and spacecraft).
Rust is entirely unproven in the hardware/microcontroller space (some would say in general), so I tend to view posts like ekidd's ("for more complicated embedded work") as projecting/wishful thinking.