cish VS factor

The other day I was implementing an AST in Cish, when I realized I could leverage Cish's type-system to do the type checking for the AST automatically.

The latest release

Link to Github Release Page

Nice, although TeleClassic is a little different - it’s written ground up from just the stuff in .NETs stl, and I’m hoping this’ll provide the increased flexibility I want. Eventually I hope to use SuperForth, a language I wrote, as an in game scripting language which users can use to upload their own mini games.

Here’s the GitHub repo, and I recommend that you build with makefile.

machine.h

``` All of the above functions, with the exception of main, can be found in compiler.c.

I’m still working on SuperForth, a statically typed functional programming language. I’m currently working on reducing the memory footprint of the ast. Part of the reason it’s there is because the ast was designed before the virtual machine and compiler were implemented, so it’s kinda bloated at the moment

It’s pretty much high level c, but with anon functions and higher order functions. The original goal of the project was to provide higher level functional abstractions/a faster more portable runtime for running USACO solutions. Although it’s not nearly as fast as C, or even Java, it’s register based vm runs 3x as fast as python, with the same amount of portability. The compiler doesn’t apply many optimizations (it’s under 400 LOC), and the rest of the code is fairly short and simple to understand. check it out here

My impression so far is (in general), Forth are practically limited to doing embedded/microcontroller development.

For us, web/mobile/desktop app devs, beside:

- 8th (https://8th-dev.com)

- Factor (https://factorcode.org)

Any suggestion which implementation we should look for?

Factor is also very much worth a look. Forth-style syntax, but with many of the ideas from CL and Smalltalk as well. In fact as a CL fan, I was very impressed by it. It's also quite "batteries included" a la Python.

Otherwise, and more seriously, I'm not completely sure variables are needed. Factor is quite usable (it's my favorite go-to language if I quickly need to script something), and mostly doesn't have them.

There's a note on the page from 2022-08-19, that a lot has been added to it. It also links to the github page[1] for the up-to-date changes.

I am a Lisp, April, APL/J/BQE, and Forth[2] aficionado. I did some file munging programs in Factor back in 2012 at my job to sort through theater attendance logs in Word to compile statistics.

[1] https://github.com/remko/waforth

[2] https://factorcode.org/

Is there any "battery-included" ANS Forth (more or less like Python/Go) which provides access to concurrency, networking, database, GUI, etc?

Not an embedded device programmer, but mostly deals with frontend apps, and occasionally backend, so those are very relevant to me.

Or perhaps use "non-traditional" Forths like 8th (https://8th-dev.com) or Factor (https://factorcode.org)?

Here's my day two solution using Factor