baby636 / actorforth

A strongly typed Forth-like language ultimately intended to target cryptoledgers and support an Actor concurrency model. Initially implemented in Python, now switched to modern C++.

ActorForth

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ActorForth is Open Source software covered under BSD license (see LICENSE.txt). If you contribute to this project then you guarantee that you have the right to contribute your content & IP, will abide by said license and do assign an unlimited, universal, non-exclusive license to the copyright holder and anyone else who agrees to abide by the license.

ActorForth was originally written in Python 3.x but hit some technical limits in Python's ability to do low level processing and the alternative implementation stressed the "functional" iterative aspects of the Python interpreter so we have now switched to modern C++ and are back on track.

See ActorForthDefinition for a quick overview of how the language works.

Experiments implementing an Actor-style programming language on top of a stack-based processor will be forthcoming as the system is developed.