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JohnEarnest
Mako
Forth2011–2026
JohnEarnest / Mako

Mako

A simple virtual game console

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9Distinct people
39Mentions
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596GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

A simple virtual game console

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

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, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year39 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-07-03 20:17:36 UTC to 2026-02-26 11:19:32 UTC.

024682011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

2 sources
RodgerTheGreat·Jun 7, 2016
Perhaps you'd enjoy some of my old Forth projects. I designed a portable VM with a Forth-based development toolchain and standard library. Included among the programs I wrote using this system were a variety of compilers and interpreters. FiDo, a tiny JIT compiler: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/demos/FiDo.f... A Logo interpreter: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/demos/Loko/L... A garbage collector used by a number of games and programs: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/lib/Algorith... A custom systems programming language targeting the VM (Java) https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/tools/Stroye...
In Bone Lisp – Lisp Without Garbage Collection
i336_·Feb 2, 2016
> I would like to be ready to offer interesting solutions or services in niches where most people don't think of working. This is a really good point; I was actually coming from the perspective of knowing where to look to find a[n existing] predictable work environment, but standing alone (or with a small group) and offering a stable service might be an even better balance, thanks to the more malleable culture. Hmm... > Health care is one place with potential though it may only fit some of your criteria. If I can avoid the corruption (sadly inevitable, with the boggling financial scales involved) and I was in a clearly politically defined environment that might work. > It was pretty cool to make a 7 figure difference with a little SQL and TCL for a local clinic where I worked as a DBA. Wow, cool. High-impact limited-radius work sounds lik
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e a lot of fun :D > Lots of opportunities to make people's day to day lives easier, too. Yeah :D especially in the UI/UX area: https://medium.com/tragic-design/how-bad-ux-killed-jenny-ef9... https://medium.com/swlh/designers-healthcare-needs-you-stat-... (even just https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amedium.com+healthcare...) > No need for the latest language either. Which is great - if I'm not required to hold on and keep up, I can learn stuff on the side at a comfortable pace, and onboard useful tech in situations where it would really count, when I have enough competence to architect with it well. (That's my main fear with a mainstream job - being expected to continuously sign off on designs I don't fully grok.) > Instead of learning the latest popular language, what I've decided to do is start learning things that sound interesting. We're all at a different place mentally, etc; you're completely right, following the pack to learn the latest language is inefficient. (And "I need to learn the latest language" sounds ridiculous on the surface!) > I've almost finished Little Schemer, for example. I'm working through Coding the Matrix to get my math up to speed. The Machine Learning course on Coursera was inspiring. After Little Schemer the rest of the "Little" books, Starting Forth, SICP, and others, are on the agenda. TIL about CtM and ML, I'll look into those! I've actually been looking at Forth myself; its philosophy (http://www.ultratechnology.com/method.htm) and operational model (http://toddbot.blogspot.be/2014/01/the-ide-called-forth-or-f...) are the most interesting I've yet found in a language. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/forth.html is a fun, oddball anecdotal intro (and a site worth browsing as far as it will go - gems inside :P), and you may also be interested in http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net and https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako. (I have about ~20 more Forth bookmarks so far.) > I'm also wondering if Life Sciences might have some interesting opportunities. That might be interesting to explore. There was a thread on here recently that noted that developments are badly needed to help implement theoretical and research work, and while some of that would probably be quite fast-paced, something like this (depending on the work on a case-by-case basis, really) could be a pretty predictable work environment.
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