@lucy

> snacks keeps talking about forth..

It's kind of an astonishing language once you really *get* it. It's like, as expressive as Lisp, but it also is usable without an OS.

> what dialect would you recommend for that specifically?

I used gForth a while but I don't think I really understood Forth until I spent a day working through Jonesforth.

The thing about Forth is that it barely even exists and is kind of just a style of programming. (Chuck Moore didn't like the standardization very much, he felt like it missed the point.) That having been said, it's hard to grasp until you use it some, and an ANS Forth is probably your best bet at being able to understand and be understood or find documentation, so gForth is probably a good place to start. (Or just get to hacking on DuskOS. YMMV.)