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This is a minor nit, perhaps, but for me, the sticking point with pretty much all bare-metal Forths out there is that they don't have a TCP/IP stack. I'm theor
by golem14 4y ago
This is a minor nit, perhaps, but for me, the sticking point with pretty much all bare-metal Forths out there is that they don't have a TCP/IP stack.
I'm theorizing that it's just too difficult to built such a stack in Forth for a hobbyist to have reasonably done. And that's a bit of a letdown of course. I really would like Forth to be able to have system libraries for networking etc., but the language philosophy is not helping here.
The good news is that by some definition, bare-bones could mean 'developed on RTOS', where the TCP stack is implemented (in C, I think) in the low level OS. 1-9-9-1.com shows that it's possible/not too hard to implement a software stack on top of sockets.