This is really too late for the GSoC bits.  But possibly of interests for later developments...


On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:03 AM, yy wrote:
> 
> Would such a project be interesting for this year gsoc? Is any mentor
> interested in Forth?
> 
> I really think acme would make a great environment for Forth
> development. I have not used 4th except to play a bit with it, but I
> have spent the last months porting the Ngaro VM to Go [1], which is
> used to run retroForth [2] images, and I think that could be a good
> starting point too.
> 
> [1] http://hg.4l77.com/gonga/
> [2] http://retroforth.org
> 
> PS: I'm CCing this to the GSoC list, but since the original message
> appeared here I'm replying to 9fans too.

A viable environment using in Plan 9 or Inferno to develop code for arrayForth and the GA line of chips that use it would be nice.  Well, nice for a few of us who may have future board designs using those chips.

Getting some Forth-SIM environment for any Plan 9 $objtype would help from having to run Windows IDEs on native x86 hardware or in VMs.  Additionally, flashing the GA chips from Plan 9 sure would make development decisions easier.

-jas