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vanderZwanyesterday at 8:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Bootstrapping a Forth in assembly is probably a better option, two birds with one stone.


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danhitetoday at 10:15 AM

or, if you're a stoned bird, perhaps bootstrap your modern skillz by ...

a session prompting Claude to quickly write all of:

  a forth style assembler for wasm 
  targeting a forth written in 6502 machine code (not assembly) 
  targeting a 6502 emulator/debugger written in Rust
  that Rust being compiled into a wasm browser project with 
  a typescript ui for display api support for all the nested contexts 
personally I've only ever done the forth-like in 6502 machine code task, but then I am old and useless (er, "retired") and wouldn't want to mislead youngsters onto my failed path