Roadmap

Roadmap for IKForth

DONE

• Migrate from OpenWatcom's wasm to flat assembler (fasm) - see #3.
• Support for Direct Threaded Code (DTC).
• Implement readline-like editing capabilities in ACCEPT (WIN-ACCEPT currently)
  • libreadline is used when running with native Linux loader
• Implement native Linux x86 loader with either C (gcc) or assembler (fasm)
• Migrate from OpenWatcom's wmake to SConstruct (was GNU's make).

TODO

• Implement signal handling for native Linux x86 loader
• Implement platform-specific Forth words for Linux x86.
• Implement bare-bones assembler to support meta-compilation.
• Implement bare-bones IKForth kernel using assembler above:
  • use STDIN for input
  • use STDOUT for output
• Implement Forth2012 words, see
  • http://forth-standard.org/
  • http://www.forth200x.org/