Going Forth
I have spent the last months discovering Forth: learning about it, reading about it, trying 4th, porting pForth to Plan9,... It is a language that I love, since I spent many hours programming my HP49G calculator and I always was a fan of the RPN syntax and simplicity in general.
My last discovery has been retroForth, a minimalistic Forth which runs on a portable virtual machine, Ngaro. When some days ago Google the Go-team presented their new language I was watching Rob's talk and could not stop thinking about launching Ngaro virtual machines in goroutines communicated through channels. So... that's what I did:
With the help of crcx (the original Ngaro author, many thanks!) and after experimenting with a brainfuck virtual machine the porting process was pretty straightforward. The retroForth image is booting without problems and you can already do some fancy things like launching children VMs and communicate their I/O ports through channels. It is a WIP yet. More to come...
Have fun!
