gforth VS r4

Compare gforth vs r4 and see what are their differences.

gforth

Gforth mirror on GitHub (original is on Savannah) (by forthy42)

r4

:r4 concatenative programming language with ideas from ColorForth. (by phreda4)
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gforth r4
8 5
139 121
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9.8 1.7
6 days ago 9 months ago
Forth Forth
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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gforth

Posts with mentions or reviews of gforth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.

r4

Posts with mentions or reviews of r4. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gforth and r4 you can also consider the following projects:

elfort - A Forth metacompiler that directly emits an executable binary for x86-64 Linux written in Arkam

zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M

swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth

miniforth - A bootsector FORTH

r3 - r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired

stoneknifeforth - a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation

arocc - A C compiler written in Zig.

r3d4 - r3 programing language for 64 bits Windows/Linux/Mac/Rasberry Pi 4

TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk

Win32Forth - forth base system

factor - Factor programming language