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Re:A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, i... by IonoclastBrig on Friday May 01, 2015 @11:15AM (#9471942)
I wrote a pretty detailed blog article about the motivations and some design aspects of the project. If you want to play with a new little toy, I'd love any (constructive!) feedback, bug reports, pull requests, etc.

http://blog.ionoclast.com/2015/05/firth-pre-alpha-1-a-forth-...

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Re:A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, i... by corysama on Friday May 01, 2015 @12:02PM (#9472357)
Have you seen http://terralang.org ? With a little work, your DSL could be generating stand-alone, statically compiled executables and c-linkable libs :D
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Re:A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, i... by IonoclastBrig on Friday May 01, 2015 @12:18PM (#9472524)
Oh, I hadn't heard of that. Sounds interesting... I've also considered at some point switching to an LLVM backend, which would let me JIT on the fly or build executables.
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Re:A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, i... by corysama on Friday May 01, 2015 @03:18PM (#9473876)
You just exactly described Terra :)

You run Lua to construct sequences of code in the language Terra. The Terra functions can be jitted or AOT compiled through LLVM.

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