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wonder about building upon this barebones #Scheme in #Forth to make it into #KernelLang or a more useful Scheme:

git.hackers.town/theruran/Sche…


Scheme-in-Forth

A Scheme LISP interpreter that can be run with Gforth, by Mark Probst
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theruran 🌐🏴
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it would be interesting to reduce the bootstrap path further. assuming the hardware target has enough memory, you could boot directly into Forth then run a Scheme interpreter.
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Gforth and pforth both need a C compiler so that's not a huge improvement. but there must be some Forths written in assembly or like the GreenArrays chips that run Forth natively.

just kinda daydreaming... but I like the clarity of that lisp.fs! wish we can break the dependence on C

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Vertigo #$FF
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This is why I wrote Shoehorn. The idea is to be able to bootstrap a #Forth environment for a processor of your choice in a matter of days, not months or years.

Of course, I haven't yet written said Forth yet (that's still in progress), but Shoehorn itself allowed me to write a simple, graphical demo on an emulator in a matter of a day, in time for an SVFIG presentation.

I retargetted Shoehorn to 64-bit RISC-V in about an hour. Untested, but it should mostly work fine as-is.

It's not the easiest thing in the world to use, but once you get your head around it, you should find that it is extremely productive.

~vertigo/k1emu: demos/heart.disk0/ - sourcehut git

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