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)
arkam
A Simple Stack VM and Forth (by jinhanada)
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| lbForth | arkam | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | |
| 398 | 29 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.6 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Forth | Forth | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
arkam
Posts with mentions or reviews of arkam.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-22.
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A Forth metacompiler directly emitting executable elf for x86-64 Linux
The metacompiler includes an Elf emitter and inline assembler written in another my Forth on StackVM Arkam.
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Vocabularies verdict?
Vocabulary mechanism made My implementations of metacompiler, private/public, and locals significantly simplified.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lbForth and arkam 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.
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
zForth - zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth scripting language for embedded systems
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
Mako - A simple virtual game console
TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
durexforth - Modern C64 Forth
elfort - A Forth metacompiler that directly emits an executable binary for x86-64 Linux written in Arkam
jonesforth_riscv - Jonesforth RISC-V port.
reko - Reko is a binary decompiler.