Re:I'm Coding by Hand
by andersmurphy on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:24AM
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I've been diving into aarch64 assembly recently building a small Forth. It's honestly really refreshing.
If you're prepared to forgo some portability and pick an architecture assembly opens up a lot if options. Things like coroutines, automatic SIMD become easier to implement. It's also got amazing zero cost C FFI (and I'm only half joking). Linux kernel booting into a minimal STC Forth is a lot of fun.
Not to mention you can run your code on android without SDK or NDK over ADB (in the case of aarch64).
If you're prepared to forgo some portability and pick an architecture assembly opens up a lot if options. Things like coroutines, automatic SIMD become easier to implement. It's also got amazing zero cost C FFI (and I'm only half joking). Linux kernel booting into a minimal STC Forth is a lot of fun.
Not to mention you can run your code on android without SDK or NDK over ADB (in the case of aarch64).