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Fitting a Forth in 512 bytes (2021)

by whereistimbo on 10/26/24, 12:47 AM with 22 comments

  • by Jun8 on 10/26/24, 3:27 PM

    Forth has been sitting on my list of cool thing to learn when I have time for the past 20 yrs or so. What would be a compelling use case and setup?
  • by IAmLiterallyAB on 10/26/24, 4:28 PM

    I have a side project to try to make an extreme minimal size compiler for a Forth inspired language and implementation. It's a compiler that generates a Forth like interpreter and byte code. The bytecode is huffman encoded. Nothing works yet but its an idea.
  • by dang on 10/26/24, 6:34 PM

    Discussed at the time:

    Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468698 - June 2021 (57 comments)