StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler)

Re:StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) by notriskfree on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:09PM (#26182472)

Very nice. Building a new FORTH using FORTH might have been easier; FORTH is traditionally very good at rebuilding itself. e.g. WimpForth on a PI400 recompiles its own kernel to an absolute image (executable) in 00:00:007. FORTH week on HN is great. The main trouble with FORTH is remembering to stop playing with FORTH and actually write the App.

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Re:StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) by kragen on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:30PM (#26189752)

Yeah, it probably would have been easier to metacompile from an existing FORTH, but the whole point was to not have a lot of dependencies on existing code.

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Re:StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) by anta40 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:48PM (#26188504)

"actually write the App."

I assume FORTH is mostly used for embedded development these days? And perhaps umm... instrumentation?

What about mobile apps? Or REST API?

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Re:StoneKnifeForth (With a Metacircular Compiler) by kragen on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#26189760)

Those I write in JS: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/81hacks/progeome

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