Looking for some Forth IDE
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Hi some times ago, I wrote a personal basic IDE in GTK+ for editing Forth scripts. It's doing some basic stuffs like word completion, color highlighting (like immediate, unknown words), dictionary display, stack display, soon I hope to add a tracer and a debugger. I was wondering if it exists Forth IDE that can be installed for Linux that I could pick some inspirations. A quick search Google I found nothing more gui-friendly than a vim-like text editor.
Thx !
@quozl Thanks for the comment. I did not know that the gnu emacs forth mode we implemented back in 88 was still used :) I will let Göran Rydqvist know when I meet him. He wrote most of the original code.
Manfred Mahlows 4ethcom might qualify as a simple IDE for Forth
https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/en:projects:e4thcom
I personally use Emacs with one of the Forth-Modes
Thx for your answers ! I've found this one http://www.holonforth.com/using.html which looks nice
A major reason that I love Forth is because it is like an IDE that is lightweight enough to run on the target. That's why most of my Forth work has centered around systems where the text interpreter is present on the target, including a resident debugger and full introspection. It's interesting that such a target-resident "Forth IDE" can fit easily on a $2 microcontroller these days, compared to modern IDEs for, e.g. C, which require you to download and install a gigabyte of stuff. The productivities are similar.
Hi Jack.