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)
qscm
A tiny bootstrapped Scheme (by 8l)
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| lbForth | qscm | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 398 | 4 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 8 years ago | |
| Forth | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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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
qscm
Posts with mentions or reviews of qscm.
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?
Scheme compiler in 60 lines of C and 239 lines of Scheme bootstrapped from an interpreter in 273 lines of Haskell
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lbForth and qscm 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.
jonesforth_arm64_apl - JonesForth ARM64 with APL symbols
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
gox - JSX for Go
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
minimal-lisp
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