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gforth
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forthy42 / gforth

gforth

Gforth mirror on GitHub (original is on Savannah)

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
191GitHub stars
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What it is

Gforth mirror on GitHub (original is on Savannah)

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-02-12 21:38:31 UTC to 2022-02-05 21:56:36 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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For contrast, gforth (a prominent Forth interpreter, by Forth standards) generates+compiles+links binding code in C, at runtime, using the ordinary C toolchain. [0][1][2] A bit 'out there' you may say, but on the plus side this approach enables handling header files and tidily expressing bindings without the need to implement their own C parser. [2] [0] GitHub mirror: https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/blob/dda77d851ddeb80ca849... [1] The official host: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git/tree/libcc.fs [2] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Call_a_foreign-language_functio...
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