I did some programming in Factor a long time ago, but nothing significant. What I want to do now is write a terminal program. I need access to USB and also NCurses or some similar console-mode code-library (I don't want to get involved with GUI). I have a Python program that was not written by me, but it doesn't do what I want and it has no documentation, and I don't want to learn Python (ugh!). I was going to write my terminal program in GCC because I programmed in Turbo C back in MS-DOS days, but I might go with Factor instead if I can get USB and console-mode support.
The purpose of all this is that I'm writing a Forth system for an 8-bit microcontroller. The terminal program is supposed to be a front-end for that. Back in the early 1990s I wrote a Forth cross-compiler for the Laser-128 and my program running on MS-DOS had source-level single-stepping and breakpoints, roughly comparable to Turbo Debugger that I was familiar with for the 8086. The terminal program I want to write now will have all of that, plus it will be the front-end for the outer-interpreter of the Forth system on the microcontroller. I'm running Windows-11. It would be good though, if I could get my terminal program to run on Linux too. thanks for any help --- Hugh
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