jonesforth
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jonesforth
- Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth
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Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems [pdf]
Cool. Here are some other resources that I've encountered along the way of learning Forth:
- JonesForth: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
This is legit a text that goes the an x86 Forth implementation. Actually, it's just an implementation with really extensive comments. That said, including whitespace and comments, it's just 2000 lines and the pedagogy is excellent. Highly recommended for anyone who would rather see behind the curtain before picking up a larger text.
- SmithForth: https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/
So, Smith decided to hand-write a Forth directly in x86-64 opcodes (well, the corresponding ascii hex bytes). It's incredibly slim and enlightening how you can bootstrap a language in just a couple hundred bytes or so.
This project actually inspired me to really learn the x86-64 architecture, so I ended up hand-decompiling the SmithForth binary instead of going through his commented implementation. Hand-decompilation is an absolutely fascinating exercise. You learn all about ELF structure, opcode encodings, and actually start to see the gaps where microarchitectural details shine through. Highly recommended for any hacker that really wants to grok low level details.
- Mecrisp: https://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/
An amazingly fast Forth implementation for MSP430, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, and some FPGAs. This gave me one really nice understanding of Forth as
A REPL into your hardware!
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Problem Running JonesFORTH
I've git-cloned JonesFORTH (https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesforth.S) and achieved to compile it (i.e. run make w/o an error. When I start the executable, it presents me with an empty line, and when I say BYE, it says PARSE ERROR: bye.
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Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
Is there any particular language you're looking for? I've found some languages hideous until I understood them and could appreciate their respective graces. Off the top of my head the I can think of a couple.
The first is Jones Forth (https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth), start with jonesforth.S and move into jonesforth.f. I really enjoyed following along with it and trying my hand at making my own stack based language.
The other is Xv6, a teaching operating system from MIT (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2021/xv6.html), not all the code or implementations are top notch but it shows you non-optimized versions (just because they're simple and more readable) of different concepts used in OS design.
If you're interested in the embedded world, there is a really neat project I've been following that feels a more structured and safe (as in fault-tolerant) while still staying pretty simple (both conceptually and in the code itself): Hubris and Humility (https://hubris.oxide.computer/).
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Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse
Very low hardware requirements, so basic industrial control at the level where you'd otherwise use an Arduino or so but on scavenged hardware. Forth is ridiculously simple to get an implementation running.
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
Is a nice starting point. It's obviously not as compact as say 'Brainfuck' but it is far more versatile.
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Making my own forth implementation
OP mentioned jonesforth, but linked to a nasm port of it. Which is probably good it’s just that the documentation in the comments with ascii art doesn’t look right on my screen. So here’s a more common repo: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth
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Struggling with looping constructs, BEGIN WHILE REPEAT
Rip the asm macros for the basic FORTH words out of this and then embed them in a C binary, statically linked with your favourite libs for whatever task. Although I haven't tried this yet, I'm planning on doing it with ncurses for my own Roguelike. From there, if you can convert the function calls and your parameters down to raw numbers, you can send instructions to ncurses or whatever other API you like, directly from a FORTH stack.
- I'm wondering why so few forth microcontoller tutorials are out there?
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replace jonesforth links to the left by proper link
or the mirror of this site in github: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth
- Languages to implement in space-constrained environments
SQLite
- Show HN: Roast my SQLite encryption at-rest
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A SQLite extension that brings column-oriented tables to SQLite
If you are into alternative storage engines for SQLite, there is also an LSM (Log-Structured Merge-tree) extension in the main repository that is not announced nor documented but seems to work. It’s based on the SQLite 4 project.
https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/ext/lsm1
https://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/lsm-key-value-storage-in-...
- SQLite License
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Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
The sqlite code base is really well done. Lots of documentation.
https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite
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Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python
Especially the VM part: https://github.com/spandanb/learndb-py/blob/master/learndb/v...
Compare it with this: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/vdbe.c
That's said, I'm curious how complete this LearnDB is. SQLite is hard to read not only it's old but also it covers a lot of SQL and following SQL spec makes hings complicated. SQLite has great test suite so it's nice if you run the suit against this implementation.
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SQLite Begin Concurrent
Correct, see the github mirror[1]. I don't know how well supported that feature is compared to main branch. If it was completely stable, then it would have already landed in the main stable branch. Clarity about the roadmap of that branch would be nice.
1. https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/begin-concurrent
- Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (2006)
- SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
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SQLite VS sqlite_blaster - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 17 Mar 2023
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Stop Saying “Technical Debt”
Including comprehensive comments, documentation and tests in a codebase takes time and effort.
Failing to do so creates code that is very difficult to maintain or for someone new to the codebase to understand.
However, time and effort may not be what the organization wants to pay for, and individuals may view their own incomprehensible code as something like job security, as they can't be replaced by someone else easily.
As an example of complicated code that's still well-documented, the open-source sqlite code is a good example, about 1/4 of the B-tree file is comments, every time a variable is defined there's a short note explaining what it's used for, every function has a comment header that's comprehensive, such that someone new to the codebase could construct a map of how it all works fairly quickly. It's a good model for how to avoid the problem:
https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/btree.c
What are some alternatives?
stoneknifeforth - a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation
sqlcipher - SQLCipher is a standalone fork of SQLite that adds 256 bit AES encryption of database files and other security features.
factor - Factor programming language
LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
durexforth - Modern C64 Forth
RocksDB - A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course
sqlite_orm - ❤️ SQLite ORM light header only library for modern C++
sectorforth - sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector.
bolt
SavjeeCoin - A simple blockchain in Javascript. For educational purposes only.
phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB