gforth VS factor

Not that I've ever seen personally. They mostly exist as extensions in various places. Gforth has one, for example.

I don't know the status of gforth's 'minos2' offering but I see a mention of X11 which is a promising sight for Linux GUI work.

See also INSTALL

\ sh-get is from script.fs: https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/blob/master/script.fs

For contrast, gforth (a prominent Forth interpreter, by Forth standards) generates+compiles+links binding code in C, at runtime, using the ordinary C toolchain. [0][1][2]

A bit 'out there' you may say, but on the plus side this approach enables handling header files and tidily expressing bindings without the need to implement their own C parser. [2]

[0] GitHub mirror: https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/blob/dda77d851ddeb80ca849...

[1] The official host: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git/tree/libcc.fs

[2] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Call_a_foreign-language_functio...

I use SP-Forth (production), Gforth (testing).

Gforth has to take special steps to ensure the OS doesn't prevent the transfer of control over to the dynamically generation instruction sequence.

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

Factor: