stoneknifeforth VS PropForth5.5

Compare stoneknifeforth vs PropForth5.5 and see what are their differences.

stoneknifeforth

a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation (by kragen)

PropForth5.5

PropForthV5.5 is Forth progamming environment for Parallax Propeller P8X32A microcontroller created by Sal Sanci (by prof-braino)
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stoneknifeforth PropForth5.5
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0.0 0.0
almost 4 years ago over 7 years ago
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stoneknifeforth

Posts with mentions or reviews of stoneknifeforth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

PropForth5.5

Posts with mentions or reviews of PropForth5.5. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-18.
  • StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2021
    >If you want to counter Ken Thompson’s “Trusting Trust” attack, you would want to start with a minimal compiler on a minimal chip; StoneKnifeForth might be a good approach.

    Some people have been working on fairly good Forths for different, minimal hardware including the Parallax boards.

    https://github.com/prof-braino/PropForth5.5

    There's also Chuck Moore's GreenArrays GA144 if you want a high performance Forth machine which includes a proto area on the board.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stoneknifeforth and PropForth5.5 you can also consider the following projects:

jonesforth - Mirror of JONESFORTH

factor - Factor programming language

durexforth - Modern C64 Forth

r4 - :r4 concatenative programming language with ideas from ColorForth.

darkhttpd - When you need a web server in a hurry.

r3d4 - r3 programing language for 64 bits Windows/Linux/Mac/Rasberry Pi 4

bashttpd - A web server written in bash

stoneknifecpp - C++ port of [stoneknifeforth](https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth)

http - A simple multi-threaded HTTP/1.0-ish file server. Single file, ~250 LOC.

bootOS - bootOS is a monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.

uip - The historical uIP sources

able-forth - A Forth-like programming language that targets the AbleVM