lbForth
Self-hosting metacompiled Forth, bootstrapping from a few lines of C; targets Linux, Windows, ARM, RISC-V, 68000, PDP-11, asm.js. (by larsbrinkhoff)
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| lbForth | gox | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 398 | 185 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 4 years ago | |
| Forth | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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lbForth
Posts with mentions or reviews of lbForth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
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What's the simplest language to implement?
Forth compiler in 159 lines of Lisp and C
- lbForth: A self-hosting metacompiled Forth
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Forth on the XMOS CPU?
Probably what I would do is write a minimal forth interpreter in C, and then use that and a few core words to bootstrap the rest of the system. It is a bit more complex than that, but here is the software which does it.https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/lbForth
gox
Posts with mentions or reviews of gox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
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What's the simplest language to implement?
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish by writing "a language", extending an existing language or making a syntactically-different language that compiles to an existing language can be both fast and rewarding. For example, I made https://github.com/8byt/gox in a couple days with no prior language-design experience (gox is to Go as JSX is to Javascript).
- JSX for Go
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GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code
Long ago I hacked together a weekend project with a friend of "JSX for go" that allowed embedding html tags into Go source like people do for react. We were pleasantly surprised how readable and flexible the Go parser source code was, even for the pretty dramatically different syntax we were trying to support.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lbForth and gox you can also consider the following projects:
xxdp - XXDP was, and remains, the PDP-11 diagnostic operating system. This project attempts to recover XXDP sources and documents.
Scala Native - Your favorite language gets closer to bare metal.
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
qscm - A tiny bootstrapped Scheme
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
minimal-lisp
elfort - A Forth metacompiler that directly emits an executable binary for x86-64 Linux written in Arkam
gokart - A static analysis tool for securing Go code
TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
bootBASIC - bootBASIC is a BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.
jonesforth_riscv - Jonesforth RISC-V port.
jonesforth_arm64_apl - JonesForth ARM64 with APL symbols