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toki-pona:

rockergiirl:

depsidase:

welcome to the rabbit hole that is esoteric programming languages, we have:

don’t forget:

thank you @obfuscatedtruttle1 (youtube page here) for all these videos! no activity on that account for a year but tagging just in case. the youtube channel is still active though :]

if you want to try creating a program in any most of these languages and more, here’s a free online interpreter here where you can select a language and get going right away.

and here’s some snippets from my brief trip into the Esolang Wiki to find those links, looking back at languages I’d already encountered as well as finding new ones.

Text: AHHH (a programming language for the dreadful) is a Turing-complete, cell-based esoteric programming language inspired by the all-consuming dread induced by programming. It was written by Kyle Morgenstein in 2021 to allow for single "screams" ("AHHH" followed by sequences of uppercase and lowercase h's) to be interpreted as runnable code.ALT
Text: The only way to store information in a Hive program is within the ants themselves. Each ant can remember a single (signed) 32-bit integer, to store more complicated information multiple ants have to work together.ALT
Text: 5D Brainfuck With Multiverse Time Travel is a superset of brainfuck with parallel universes and time travel. It is based on 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel.ALT
Text: Like brainfuck, 5D Brainfuck With Multiverse Time Travel operates on an array of memory cells initialized to zero. Multiple pointers to memory, and to the program, may coexist in each timeline. The state of the tape is stored as a timeline, allowing programs to rewind time. In addition, programs may create and traverse parallel universes, which are timelines that all execute simultaneously, "below" their parent timeline. Each timeline has its own pointer.ALT
Text: 5D 5D Brainfuck With Multiverse Time Travel With Multiverse Time Travel is a superset of 5D Brainfuck With Multiverse Time Travel with parallel universes and time travel. It is based on 5D 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel With Multiverse Time Travel.ALT
Text: The following graphic demonstrates the behavior of parallel timelines. Note that this does not include time travel, as that would make the graphic impossible to read. There is no graphic included in the image.ALT
Text: Hexagony is a two-dimensional programming language developed by user:Martin Ender. To the best of the author's knowledge it's the first ever 2D language where the instruction pointer moves on a hexagonal grid. Furthermore, the memory layout also resembles a (separate) hexagonal grid. The name is a portmanteau of "hexagon" and "agony", because I expect programming in it to be quite painful.ALT
A block of text above the caption "Example: Hello, World!" The text within the block consists of single characters in a monospace font spaced such that they are aligned to a hexagonal grid. The text is as follows: H ; e ; l ; d ; * ; r ; o ; W l ; ; o ; * 4 3 3 ; @ . > ; 2 3 < \ 4 ; * /ALT
Text: Introduction ZOMBIE is a programming language designed for Necromancers, particularly evil ones. (Actually, what other sorts are there?) ZOMBIE is an acronym, and stands for Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine. Design Principles • The language should allow the necromancer to animate dead bodies, summon and control spirits, and solve any computable problem. • There should be sensible guarantees against overwriting system memory, monopolising CPU cycles, and releasing malicious entities into the world. • The language must be inherently evil. ALT
Text: language was inspired by the inner workings of a shotgun.ALT

I love esolangs.