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# Retro Forth
Retro is a set of modern, pragmatic Forths drawing influences
from many sources. It's clean, elegant, tiny, easy to grasp, and
adaptable to many tasks.
It's not a traditional Forth. Drawing influence from colorForth,
it uses prefixes to guide the compiler. From Joy and Factor, it
uses quotations (anonymous, nestable functions) and combinators
(functions that operate on functions) for much of the stack and
flow control. It also adds vocabularies for working with strings,
arrays, and other data types.
# Community
#retro on irc.libera.chat
#retro:libera.chat (Matrix)
IRC LogsBug Reports----------------------------------------------------------------
# RetroForth / Nga
Retro runs on Nga, a tiny virtual machine emulating a MISC style
processor. Implementations of this are included in 65c816
assembly, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Nim, Pascal, Python, Rust,
Swift, and Retro.
# Latest Release
New releases are made in January and July.
The current release is 2022.8
Source & Docs (tar.gz)## Development Snapshot
These are updated hourly.
Latest SourceLatest Documentation (epub)Latest Documentation (text)retro.c (Amalgamation for BSD, Linux, Haiku, Windows)# Repositories
Fossil:
http://forthworks.com:8000
Git:
https://git.sr.ht/~crc_/retroforth
https://github.com/crcx/retroforth.git
# Resources
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# RetroForth / Napia
Running on Napia, a new virtual machine for resource constrained
targets, this is a new implementation of RetroForth.
It's not complete yet, and (due to differences needed because of
resource constraints and the new underlying architecture) is not
fully compatible with RetroForth/Nga, though it should be quite
familiar for those using RetroForth/Nga.
# Download
Latest Snapshot# Repository
Git: https://git.sr.ht/~crc_/retroforth-napia