bit-serial VS scamp-cpu

I wrote a Forth interpreter for a SUBLEQ machine (https://github.com/howerj/subleq), and for a bit-serial machine (https://github.com/howerj/bit-serial), both of which do not have a function call stack which is a requirement of Forth. SUBLEQ also does not allow indirect loading and stores as well and requires self-modifying code to do anything non-trivial. The approach I took for both machines was to build a virtual machine that could do those things, along with cooperative multithreading. The heap, if required, is written in Forth, along with a floating point word-set (various MCUs not having instructions for floating point numbers is still fairly common, and can be implemented as calls to software functions that implement them instead).

I would imagine that other compilers took a similar approach which wasn't mentioned.

Re the text editor, when I was writing an editor for my homemade CPU I used the one from this tutorial: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html - it is 1000 lines of C.

I have diverged a bit from the tutorial because I didn't want syntax highlighting and I really wanted vi-style keybindings. Mine is at https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/blob/master/sys/kilo.sl (in my made-up programming language).

I made the computer myself: https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/

PROJECT LINK: Solutions GitHub - CPU GitHub - YouTube

In case you're interested, there's more about this project in the github repo: https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/ and on my blog: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/tags/cpu.html

This is really cool and unique. I poked around a bit, and the kernel is vaguely POSIX like, but written in a homegrown language with a compiler written in Perl[1].

[1] https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/blob/f260f52d950be90c2279f5...

Actually, I just found this! That's pretty much what I was looking for. That's what I would have linked if it had been me posting. :) This looks like a really interesting computer project!