forthy2 VS jombloforth

Compare forthy2 vs jombloforth and see what are their differences.

jombloforth

Minimal FORTH interpreter for 64-bit Linux systems. Based on jonesforth. (by matematikaadit)
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forthy2 jombloforth
2 1
55 16
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10.0 10.0
over 4 years ago about 5 years ago
C++ Assembly
MIT License The Unlicense
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forthy2

Posts with mentions or reviews of forthy2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-13.

jombloforth

Posts with mentions or reviews of jombloforth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-13.
  • Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial (2007)
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2022
    Here's one of the many forks that brings it up to 64-bit:

    https://github.com/matematikaadit/jombloforth

    If you like forth there's an awesome series of comments here on hacker news on building a simple variant in a few simple steps:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082825

    I took that, and built a simple forth-like system, in golang following the original recipe and breaking it down into simple steps for learning-purposes:

    https://github.com/skx/foth

What are some alternatives?

When comparing forthy2 and jombloforth you can also consider the following projects:

ti84-forth - A Forth implementation for the TI-84+ calculator.

zForth - zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth scripting language for embedded systems

foth - Tutorial-style FORTH implementation written in golang

pijFORTHos - A bare-metal FORTH operating system for Raspberry Pi

Bashforth - A Forth interpreter, entirely written as bash script. But by now is yoda (https://github.com/Bushmills/yoda) the better bashforth.

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

language-incubator - Learning compilers, interpreters, code generation, virtual machines, assemblers, JITs, etc.

factor - Factor programming language

zkeme80 - An assembler and operating system for the TI-84+ written in Scheme, Forth and Z80 assembly.