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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary

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210 points JoeDaDude | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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sourcepluck ◴[21 Nov 24 20:06 UTC] No.42208060[source]▶
Looks very cool!

Relatedly, there's http://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/, which I think looks lovely. Has anyone gone through that and would like to share their experience?

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1. xelxebar ◴[22 Nov 24 08:24 UTC] No.42212088[source]▶
Virgil Dupras, the author of the Tumble Forth series there, also authors DuskOS, an OS written entirely in a custom Forth. His consistent and prodigious output really is quite impressive. I don't really hold to the collapse philosophy, but the DuskOS mailing list has just the right amount of volume that it's perfect for lurking.

Virgil's work inspired me to give Forth a bit of a go, and last year I spent some time hand decompiling SmithForth[1]. It really is remarkable how little assembler is required to bootstrap the language. I can totally see how Forth could give you a repl in embedded environments, which sounds way more fun than the typical dev cycle I hear about.

[0]:https://duskos.org/ [1]:https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/