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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World
Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.
In the late 1950s, the computer scientist Chuck H. Moore was working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, predicting the future position of celestial bodies and satellites based on observational data. And because I had to think twice, all the needlessly complicated acronyms that remind us to be concise in other coding languages—YAGNI (you aren’t gonna need it), KISS (keep it simple, stupid), DRY (don’t repeat yourself)—were rendered obsolete. Since 2016 Devine and their partner Rek have been living full-time on a small boat in the northern Pacific, and they use lower-level languages like Forth to maximize what they can do with the 190 watts of daily power they get from two solar panels.
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