Ficl is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language designed to be incorporated into other programs, including memory constrained embedded systems. Ficl conforms to the 1994 ANSI Standard for Forth, and provides several useful extensions including object oriented programming that can wrap compiled code and hardware interfaces.
Unlike Lua or Python, Ficl acts as a component of your system - you feed it stuff to do, it does the stuff, and comes back to you for more. You can export compiled code to Ficl, execute Ficl code from your compiled code, or interact. Your choice. Ficl includes a simple but capable object model that can wrap existing data structures.
Applications include scripting, hardware bring-up, rapid prototyping, and system extensions.
Features
- Written portably in standard C for 32 and 64 bit systems
- System dependencies isolated for simple adaptation to your favorite target
- Widely used in embedded systems with memory constraints.
- Ficl conforms to the 1994 ANSI Standard for FORTH (DPANS94)
- Configurable at compile time - you can strip Ficl down to a very small memory footprint and still have a powerful extension language
- BSD license 2.0 - very simple, no copyleft