There's also Geoff Graham's BASIC for the Pi Pico.

https://geoffg.net/picomite.html

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
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> > On May 2, 2024, at 4:23 PM, Gordon Henderson via cctalk 
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> > I'm told Lua is the new Basic or Python is the new Basic, but the best 
> > thing for me about Basic on the old micros was being able to turn the 
> > computer on and type Basic into it immediately.... And to that end, I 
> > decided to re-target my C Basic it to a bare metal framework for the 
> > Raspberry Pi I'd been working on - boots to Basic in... well, it's not as 
> > quick as an Apple II or BBC Micro, but under 2 seconds. It's a bit faster 
> > on a Pi Zero as there's no USB to initialise...
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> That's why I've been playing with FORTH on my Raspberry Pico microcontrollers 
> (Travis Bemann's "Zeptoforth" dialect, to be precise).  It's nice and 
> compact, and it boots in milliseconds.  Multicore, multitasking, lots of 
> library modules... nice.
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