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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER 
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
ooo mecrisp-across is really neat. a proper optimizing forth environment running in a tethered arrangement so when you define a function its created and optimised on your powerful host computer before its written to the microcontroller's flash via jtag
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@coolbean mecrisp code i've looked at was prob some of the nicest forth i've seen
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks ive never even considered that this is a thing tbh
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks like it makes sense once you remember that with llvm for instance, you implement a language by like turning the code into llvm intermediary representation and then thats what actually gets optimised so having a forth that compiles to intermediary representation instead of assembly just kinda works out
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@coolbean i've also seen people cross compile forth to c so they could use gcc lmao
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks i mean ghc also uses a subset of c as its intermediary representation
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks quake 3 uses its compiler intermediary representation for the qvm
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks update: hold the fuck on i could implement this as a set of m4 macros thatd be so fucking funny
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