miniforth
A bootsector FORTH (by meithecatte)
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)
| miniforth | lbForth | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 116 | 398 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.8 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Forth | Forth | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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miniforth
Posts with mentions or reviews of miniforth.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-05.
- Show HN: PlanckForth: Bootstrapping an Interpreter from Handwritten 1KB Binary
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PlanckForth: Bootstrapping an Interpreter from Handwritten 1KB Binary
The initial 1-character syntax is an interesting approach. Though, in my experience, you can afford the full Forth syntax even with half the byte budget.
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Branches: No assembly required
Good question. That code doesn't need any changes from what happened in the assembly post. You can see it here.
lbForth
Posts with mentions or reviews of lbForth.
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing miniforth and lbForth you can also consider the following projects:
planckforth - Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
xxdp - XXDP was, and remains, the PDP-11 diagnostic operating system. This project attempts to recover XXDP sources and documents.
gforth - Gforth mirror on GitHub (original is on Savannah)
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
Mako - A simple virtual game console
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
TclForth - Multi-platform desktop Forth based on Tcl/Tk
mes-m2 - Making Mes.c M2-Planet friendly
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.