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)
bootBASIC
bootBASIC is a BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code. (by nanochess)
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| lbForth | bootBASIC | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 | |
| 398 | 336 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.8 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Forth | Assembly | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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
bootBASIC
Posts with mentions or reviews of bootBASIC.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
- GitHub - nanochess/bootBASIC: bootBASIC is a BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.
- bootBASIC - BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.
- BootBASIC Interpreter in 512 Bytes
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What's the simplest language to implement?
BASIC interpreter in 512 bytes of 8086 asm
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SectorLISP binary footprint comparaison
Here's another single sector language https://github.com/nanochess/bootBASIC
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lbForth and bootBASIC 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.
musl-cross-make - Simple makefile-based build for musl cross compiler
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
gox - JSX for Go
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
jonesforth_arm64_apl - JonesForth ARM64 with APL symbols
TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
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.
subleq - 16-bit SUBLEQ CPU running eForth - just for fun
arkam - A Simple Stack VM and Forth