There's a lot of idiosyncratic verbiage about stuff like collapse of civilization and users vs. operators, but it's not clear to me what makes this more lightweight or hackable than a typical lightweight RTOS or even just baremetal drivers running on a microcontroller.
Yes, this is it. A C compiler in 50 kilobytes of code is pretty innovative.
It's also doesn't lie about the "almost". It's really almost C. It's just that C's stdlib is POSIX centric and doesn't fit Forth well, so it's not implemented as is.
Or rather, why is it not much worse than an actual C compiler.
In an apocalyptic event energy would be precious. You'd rather have an optimizing compiler to run longer off your solar-charged car battery or whatever.
I like the roleplay/lore and the tech effort is impressive but I don't think it fits the idea.
