Release v0.0.2 · bahmanm/bjforth
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The first ever release 🎉 The fruit of 2 years worth of work, v0.0.2 packs a good bunch of features including initial Java inter-op. You can view the list of all the words included in the library. #...
  • @solrize
    4•1 day ago

    You start with a working Forth and then bootstrap, sort of like writing a C compiler in C. There is an additional trick that Forth calls metacompilation (note, that term has a different meaning outside of the Forth world). See: https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving4.htm

    • bahmanmOP
      2•17 hours ago

      That’s definitely an interesting idea. Thanks for sharing.

      Though it means that someone down the line must have written a bootstrap programme with C/Assembler to run the host forth.

      In case of jbForth, I decided to write the bootstrap too.