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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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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.
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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
rForth
Posts with mentions or reviews of rForth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-09.
spf
Posts with mentions or reviews of spf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-02.
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Open Source Forth Systems With First Class Preemptive Multitasking?
SP-Forth/4 is an open source 32bit Forth system that runs on Windows and on Linux.
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What is actually Forth ?
I was careful to say I was referring to Windows/Mac/Linux only, but it looks like I'm wrong - there's SP-Forth, which was last updated yesterday.
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which forth do you guys use for normal day to day scripting and programming
I use SP-Forth (production), Gforth (testing).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rForth and spf you can also consider the following projects:
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
r3d4 - r3 programing language for 64 bits Windows/Linux/Mac/Rasberry Pi 4
gforth - Gforth mirror on GitHub (original is on Savannah)
r3 - r3 programing language - ColorForth inspired
r4 - :r4 concatenative programming language with ideas from ColorForth.