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This might be the baader meinhof phenomenon since I've been writing one, but does it seem like there are a lot of Forth-related things happening lately?
by randrews 6y ago
This might be the baader meinhof phenomenon since I've been writing one, but does it seem like there are a lot of Forth-related things happening lately?
- stevekemp 6y agoThere has definitely been 5+ posts over the past few days relating to FORTH. I love the language, it is fun to tinker with, but despite that I've never used it for anything practical. Almost all FORTH posts get an upvote from me, though my own recent submission about writing a simple FORTH-like interpreter sank without a trace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111565
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoYep. I like the description that turned up in an earlier thread: it's Forth Week on HackerNews.
- randrews 6y agoI've seen a couple on Hackaday too! I didn't know if it was just me, because I've been writing a Forth compiler so I'm probably more likely to notice them.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> I've been writing a Forth compiler Well you can't just leave it there. Wacky architecture? Unusual choice of host language?
- randrews 6y agoIt's part of a larger project that's not finished yet. First I made up a CPU architecture and wrote an assembler for it. Then I made an emulator for the machine. Then I wrote a Forth compiler targeting that assembly. Now I'm working on interactive dev tools, web-based emulator, polishing everything, etc, so other people will be able to use it. Later on, a way to run it on hardware, probably some kind of FPGA / fast-microcontroller hybrid board.