Gforth

Gforth is a free and portable implementation of the Forth programming language for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. A primary goal of Gforth is to adhere to the ANS Forth standard. Gforth is free software as part of the GNU Project.^[3]

Gforth

Original author(s)	Bernd Paysan Anton Ertl
Developer(s)	GNU Project
Initial release	mid-1992; 33 years ago (1992)[1]
Stable release	0.7.9_20250101[2]  / 1 January 2025; 3 months ago (1 January 2025)
Repository	git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git
Written in	C, Forth
Operating system	Unix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2
Type	Interpreter
License	GNU GPLv3
Website	gnu.org/s/gforth/

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History

The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth^[1][4][5] Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.^[3]