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Re:Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation by boffinAudio on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:03AM (#39788706)
As much as I love Lua its very difficult to shoe-horn into an 8-bit CPU, especially with limited RAM... but there are other efforts to bring more modern languages to these platforms, and one that strikes me as interesting is dflat, from 6502Nerd:

https://github.com/6502Nerd/dflat/wiki

(See language description here: https://github.com/6502Nerd/dflat/wiki/2.-Language-Descripti...)

Maybe something like this could evolve/be adapted for continued modern development needs?

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Re:Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation by thesnide on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:32PM (#39792935)
I dream of a pico8 clone, but with forth instead of lua....
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Re:Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation by jamesgeck0 on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:22PM (#39793878)
There are some forth WASM compilers, right?

The Pico8-inspired TIC-80 project can use WASM, although it’s a pretty heavy fantasy console too. The WASM-4 project might be another option to look into.

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