MiniForth VS goforth

Compare MiniForth vs goforth and see what are their differences.

MiniForth

A tiny Forth I built in a week. Blog post: https://www.thanassis.space/miniforth.html (by ttsiodras)

goforth

A fully compiled and forth-like language including a small virtual machine. (by loscoala)
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MiniForth goforth
1 1
87 7
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10.0 8.2
over 2 years ago about 2 months ago
C++ Go
MIT License MIT License
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MiniForth

Posts with mentions or reviews of MiniForth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-16.
  • Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    As soon as I met Forth, I felt I had to hack my own [miniforth](https://github.com/ttsiodras/MiniForth/) - and did so over a single week, two years ago. I targeted the Blue Pill and the original Arduino, but developed via cross-compilers so that I could test my code in the host.

    I became so obsessed with the project that I was looking forward to tinkering with it after coming back from work every day; so it was hacked in 5 evenings and a weekend.

    It was that fun, to build a Forth. I highly recommend the process - I think the only other time I felt so enlightened was [when I first met Lisp macros](https://www.thanassis.space/score4.html#lisp).

goforth

Posts with mentions or reviews of goforth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-16.
  • Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    I have implemented yet another forth by myself. It works a little bit different and it is not intended to be a true copy of the original idea.

    Since the post says you can discover Forth, here's my part:

    https://github.com/loscoala/goforth

    The main difference is that in this Forth variant, the source text is completely translated into bytecode and there is no runtime in the sense of classic Forth. This makes it easy to translate the bytecode to C.

    I use my own Forth to generate C code with it, which I then embed in other software.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MiniForth and goforth you can also consider the following projects:

third - Third, a small Forth compiler for 8086 DOS

sightreading.training - 🎹 Sight reading training tool

muforth - A simple, indirect-threaded Forth, written in C; for target compiling; runs on Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin

factor - Factor programming language

moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

Gentee script programming language - Gentee - script programming language for automation. It uses VM and compiler written in Go (Golang).

yup - source code of the yup compiler and other related tools