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)
minimal-lisp
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| lbForth | minimal-lisp | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | |
| 398 | 6 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 6 years ago | |
| Forth | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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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
minimal-lisp
Posts with mentions or reviews of minimal-lisp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-22.
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Easy-to-implement PLs
LISP is perhaps the sweet spot, being both very simple but also very readable and usable. Here is a LISP interpreter in 286 lines of C.
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What's the simplest language to implement?
Lisp interpreter in 262 lines of C
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lbForth and minimal-lisp 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.
gox - JSX for Go
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
qscm - A tiny bootstrapped Scheme
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
Forth-in-Charm - An implementation of Forth in the Charm scripting language.
elfort - A Forth metacompiler that directly emits an executable binary for x86-64 Linux written in Arkam
TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
jonesforth_riscv - Jonesforth RISC-V port.
subleq - 16-bit SUBLEQ CPU running eForth - just for fun
reko - Reko is a binary decompiler.
arkam - A Simple Stack VM and Forth