waforth vs raillisp

waforth

Small but complete dynamic Forth Interpreter/Compiler for and in WebAssembly (by remko)

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raillisp

A fast and portable lisp implemented in forth (by mschuldt)

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waforth		raillisp
	Project
6	Mentions	1
450	Stars	24
-	Growth	-
7.0	Activity	10.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
WebAssembly	Language	Forth
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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waforth

Posts with mentions or reviews of waforth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-07.

Show HN: TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024

Super nice project! I also spent the last month writing a WASM interpreter ( https://github.com/rrampage/wart ) using Java 21. I started it as an excuse to try out the pattern matching in switch / sealed classes in Java. It kind of snowballed in scope and can now run Doom and Waforth ( https://github.com/remko/waforth )! Have not yet tried compiling it to WASM and running it as a meta-circular interpreter.
Bunch of questions about forth
5 projects | /r/Forth | 23 Feb 2023

Concerning the point 8. There is an online Forth system demo Thurtle (in the browser) with turtle graphics, which is based on WAForth.
A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2023

There's a note on the page from 2022-08-19, that a lot has been added to it. It also links to the github page[1] for the up-to-date changes.
I am a Lisp, April, APL/J/BQE, and Forth[2] aficionado. I did some file munging programs in Factor back in 2012 at my job to sort through theater attendance logs in Word to compile statistics.
[1] https://github.com/remko/waforth
[2] https://factorcode.org/
WAForth (WASM-based ANS Forth) supports interactive "notebooks" in VSCode
7 projects | /r/Forth | 14 Dec 2022

raillisp

Posts with mentions or reviews of raillisp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-23.

Bunch of questions about forth
5 projects | /r/Forth | 23 Feb 2023

Examples of minimal Lisp in Forth: - https://github.com/schani/forthlisp - https://github.com/mschuldt/raillisp

What are some alternatives?

When comparing waforth and raillisp you can also consider the following projects:

forthlisp - A Small Lisp in Forth

discussion - Discussion repository for Forth enthusiasts.

cforth - Mitch Bradley's CForth implementation

micropolis - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/micropolis

ESP32forth - FORTH developments for ESP32

JS-Monster - JavaScript is a BEAST, JS Monster portrays that awesomeness with a mascot inspired by the JS logo.

sandspiel - Creative cellular automata browser game

xxhash-wasm - A WebAssembly implementation of xxHash

VectorVisor - VectorVisor is a vectorizing binary translator for GPUs, designed to make it easy to run many copies of a single-threaded WebAssembly program in parallel using GPUs

wasker - Wasm compiler for running Wasm on your favorite kernel