minimal-lisp
By jmckitrick
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 | lbForth | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 6 | 398 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 6 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | Forth | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing minimal-lisp and lbForth you can also consider the following projects:
gox - JSX for Go
xxdp - XXDP was, and remains, the PDP-11 diagnostic operating system. This project attempts to recover XXDP sources and documents.
qscm - A tiny bootstrapped Scheme
swapforth - Swapforth is a cross-platform ANS Forth
Forth-in-Charm - An implementation of Forth in the Charm scripting language.
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
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