jombloforth VS zForth

Compare jombloforth vs zForth and see what are their differences.

jombloforth

Minimal FORTH interpreter for 64-bit Linux systems. Based on jonesforth. (by matematikaadit)

zForth

zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth scripting language for embedded systems (by zevv)
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jombloforth zForth
1 4
16 336
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10.0 4.5
about 5 years ago 7 days ago
Assembly C
The Unlicense MIT License
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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

zForth

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

pforth - Portable Forth in C

foth - Tutorial-style FORTH implementation written in golang

arkam - A Simple Stack VM and Forth

gravity - Gravity Programming Language

libforth - libforth: A small Forth interpreter that can be used as a library written in c99

fibr - a minimal interpreter

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

forthy2 - a Forth (for you) too

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