/docker-forth

Docker images for popular Forth systems

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Docker-Forth - Docker images for popular Forth systems

When you try to write portable Forth programs it is hard to verify that your program is in deed compatible to a wide variety of Standard Forth systems. It would be ideal if you could test your program against many systems. With Forth systems in docker containers you now can.

This repository provides Dockerfiles for a growing number of popular Forth systems, so it is getting easy to run them for a test drive.

If you are not familiar with Docker, read about it at www.docker.com.

If you want to write Standard Forth programs and contribute them to the community have a look at forth-standard.org and theforth.net

Supported Forth systems

Try them

All free systems are also available as prebuilt images. To run them just run

docker run -i -t --rm rundockerforth/SYSTEMNAME

where SYSTEMNAME is one of the above Forth system names.

Contribute

If you want to improve the images (e.g. update them to a newer version, reduce the memory footprint, etc.) or contribute other systems, I would be happy to accept your pull requests.


May the Forth be with you.