8th Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• My history with Forth, and stack machines

  My impression so far is (in general), Forth are practically limited to doing embedded/microcontroller development. For us, web/mobile/desktop app devs, beside: - 8th (https://8th-dev.com) - Factor (https://factorcode.org) Any suggestion which implementation we should look for? - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• What the hell is Forth? (2019)

  Is there any "battery-included" ANS Forth (more or less like Python/Go) which provides access to concurrency, networking, database, GUI, etc? Not an embedded device programmer, but mostly deals with frontend apps, and occasionally backend, so those are very relevant to me. Or perhaps use "non-traditional" Forths like 8th (https://8th-dev.com) or Factor (https://factorcode.org)? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Advent of Code 2022

  I'm a couple of days behind in the AoC. To make the challenge more demanding I opted to use a language I'm not extremely familiar with: 8th. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• What is the best way to make lightwheight GUIs in forth?

  My 8th includes a (cross-platform) GUI build around the Nuklear toolkit, nothing extra required. But that may not be what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

• Useful lesser-used languages?

  a FORTH dialect. Currently I'm using 8th https://8th-dev.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• which forth do you guys use for normal day to day scripting and programming

  I use 8th, but then I'm the author. Not open-source, but it has a free version. Source: over 2 years ago

• Forth exception handling write-up

  In 8th I opted to make exceptions generally fatal errors. That is to say, in a properly functioning program, an exception ends the program (with a message being logged). Source: over 2 years ago

• Why are you building a programming language?

  Later on, I wanted a cross-platform language which answered my security needs (for another project), and that's how 8th came about. Source: over 2 years ago

• Tiny FORTH from scratch in 1 week (bootloader-based Arduino UNO, 2K of RAM)

  Ron is the author of 8th, which is based on Forth (i.e. 8 > 4). I believe he is the author of the earlier implementation called Reva Forth also. The website is https://8th-dev.com/ . - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago