gforth ☆

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Description:
Implementation of the ANS Forth language

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: forth programming-language interpreter gnu development

Install: brew install gforth

About:
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth programming language. It combines the efficiency of a threaded code interpreter with the convenience of a full development environment. It is widely used for numerical computation, language research, and embedded systems development.

Key Features:

Fast, portable threaded-code interpreter
Complete ANS Forth standard compliance
Integrated development environment with a debugger
Foreign Function Interface (FFI) for C libraries

Use Cases:

Algorithmic and numerical problem solving
Embedded systems programming and prototyping
Computer science education and language research
Scripting and automation tasks

Alternatives:

pforth – pforth is a smaller, embeddable Forth implementation, whereas Gforth offers a more complete standard-compliant environment.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2024 8:54am		3	VERSION_BUMP	12c3db8d
Nov 30, 2022 3:30pm		3	VERSION_BUMP	daf411e5