Forthic Rust Runtime

A Rust implementation of the Forthic stack-based concatenative programming language.

Overview

Forthic is a stack-based, concatenative language designed for composable transformations. This is the official Rust runtime implementation, providing full compatibility with other Forthic runtimes while leveraging Rust's memory safety and zero-cost abstractions for high performance.

Learn more at forthix.com →

Features

• ✅ Complete Forthic language implementation
• ✅ All 8 standard library modules
• ✅ Memory-safe, thread-safe execution environment
• ✅ Seamless interop with Rust types

Development

# Compile
cargo build

# Run tests
cargo test

# Check types and borrow checker
cargo check

# Run with optimizations
cargo run --release

Standard Library Modules

• core: Stack operations, variables, control flow
• array: Data transformation (MAP, SELECT, SORT, etc.)
• record: Dictionary/HashMap operations
• string: Text processing
• math: Arithmetic operations
• boolean: Logical operations
• datetime: Date/time manipulation (using chrono)
• json: JSON serialization (using serde_json)

License

BSD 2-CLAUSE

Links

• forthix.com - Learn about Forthic and Categorical Coding
• Category Theory for Coders - Understand the foundations
• Forthic Language Specification
• TypeScript Runtime (reference implementation)