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Recently, I was looking at the Zig programming language . As I often do, I started implementing a few typical things in new languages to learn them. Well, one of them was super slow and Zig is supposed to be super fast, so I was trying to understand where the disconnect was and compare it to Factor !
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
“Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee.” - William Kershner
One of the interesting aspects of a concatenative language like Factor is that blocks of logic can be easily extracted and easily reused since they apply logic to objects on the stack .