elfort vs Mako

elfort

A Forth metacompiler that directly emits an executable binary for x86-64 Linux written in Arkam (by jinhanada)

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Mako

A simple virtual game console (by JohnEarnest)

#Forth #virtual-machine #Toolchain #emulator-programming #fantasy-console

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elfort		Mako
	Project
2	Mentions	5
8	Stars	536
-	Growth	-
5.8	Activity	2.5
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Forth	Language	Forth
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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elfort

Posts with mentions or reviews of elfort. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-22.

A Forth metacompiler directly emitting executable elf for x86-64 Linux
3 projects | /r/Forth | 22 Sep 2021

The metacompiler includes an Elf emitter and inline assembler written in another my Forth on StackVM Arkam.

3 projects | /r/Forth | 22 Sep 2021

Mako

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mako. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-20.

Lisp in Forth
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2021

On a related note, here's a Logo interpreter I implemented many years ago using a dialect of Forth: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/demos/Loko/L...
8-bit stack-machine emulated by 200 lines of C
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2021

Some similarities to one of my old projects, MakoVM:
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako
It is also Forth-based, and has an ecosystem of interesting little games, programs, and libraries. The CPU, GPU, and other IO facilities fit in a little over 200 lines of Java:
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/src/MakoVM.j...