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Sep 27, 2023

Languages

• CellTail (⭐5) - A 1d celular automata based language, supports a complex pattern matching syntax.

Sep 19, 2023

Languages

• ><> - A stack-based 2d language with support for reflection.

Jun 02, 2023

Languages

• Malbolge - Named after the 8th level of hell, is designed to be as difficult as possible to program.

Jun 01, 2023

Languages

• COW - Brainfuck variant using twelve variations of moos as instructions.

Apr 19, 2023

Languages

• Electra (⭐76) - Code like an electrician.

Jan 29, 2022

Others

• asmbf (⭐96) - The only true brainfuck assembler toolkit.

• MalbolgeLisp (⭐382) - A Lisp interpreter in Malbolge Unshackled.

Community

• Esolangs Discord Server - A Discord community about esoteric languages.

Dec 05, 2021

Languages

• False - Heavily obfuscated language with a minimal implementation.

• Haifu - Designed with the core values of Eastern philosophy in mind.

May 25, 2021

Languages

• Piet - Language in which programs look like abstract paintings using colors as code. Named after Piet Mondrian.

• RASEL (⭐6) - Fungeoid with no limits on program space, float precision, and with a bit of random access to stack.

May 08, 2021

Languages

• FlipJump (⭐46) - 1 instruction: Flip a bit, then Jump. The simplest OISC.

Mar 28, 2021

Languages

• FreakC (⭐129) - Full-blown programming language with NSFW contents and memes.

• JellyScript - Brainfuck-based with delicious jelly.

Dec 30, 2020

Languages

• Watson (⭐271) - Stack-based Turing-incomplete configuration files.

Dec 28, 2020

Languages

• C Flat (⭐14) - Musical language focused on sound rather than notation with creative freedom in mind.

Oct 11, 2020

Languages

• legit - Programs defined entirely by the graph of the git repository instead of its contents.

Oct 01, 2020

Languages

• Technologic - Language in which programs look like the lyrics to the Daft Punk song Technologic.

Aug 23, 2020

Languages

• Brackets (⭐3) - Language made of brackets, a lot of brackets.

Aug 11, 2020

Languages

• Tru (⭐3) - A stack-based language with prefix-free brackets.

Aug 10, 2020

Languages

• Dots (⭐5) - A turing-complete language using "." symbol only.

• Japt (⭐72) - Reduced JavaScript for golfing.

• Jelly (⭐779) - Golfing language based on J.

Jul 08, 2020

Languages

• Ni (⭐6) - Brainfuck-based with more helpful instructions.

Jun 02, 2020

Languages

• AlmostBinary (⭐6) - Code in binary and run on any platform.

May 17, 2020

Languages

• 1+ - A surprisingly user-friendly language with a highly-limited instruction set.

May 04, 2020

Languages

• Spooky - The scariest programming language 🎃 💀.

Others

• NoCode (⭐58k) - Secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

• vapor.js (⭐1.4k) - The World's Smallest & Fastest JavaScript Library.

Apr 30, 2020

Languages

• INTERCAL - Parody language intended to be completely different from other languages.

• TrumpScript (⭐7.5k) - Make Python great again.

Apr 28, 2020

Languages

• ajsone - Language defined completely in JSON.

• 文言 (Wenyan) - Closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature.

Community

• Code Golf Stack Exchange - Golfing problems and answers.

Apr 27, 2020

Languages

• Folders (⭐366) - Code written with folders.

Apr 26, 2020

Languages

• ArnoldC - Based on the best one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Others

• CSS-only-chat (⭐6.5k) - A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend.

Community

• Anarchy Golf - Informal golfing problems server.

Apr 07, 2020

Languages

• 78 (⭐3) - A single-character command language focused around the numbers 7 and 8.

Jan 20, 2020

Languages

• Golfscript - Stack oriented, aimed at solving problems in as few keystrokes as possible.

Jan 14, 2020

Languages

• Turtle (⭐4) - Uses long-term storage for memory use.

Jan 10, 2020

Others

• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition (⭐19k) - Simple FizzBuzz game implemented under the most strict enterprise standards.

• Petrovich - Operating System concept based on random actions and rewards/punishments.

Dec 28, 2019

Languages

• WordLang - A language based on meaning-like grammar that produces output.

Dec 11, 2019

Languages

• ZOMBIE - Inherently evil multithreaded language designed for Necromancers.

Nov 01, 2019

Languages

• Fugue - Music as source code.

• Monicelli (⭐1.3k) - Programming using Italian-like gibberish.

Algorithms

• πfs (⭐6.4k) - Pi-based storage system, store your data by searching a matching sequence in pi.

• Stacksort - Sorts a list by searching answers in Stack Overflow and executing code snippets until is sorted.

Resources

• Esolang List of ideas - Compilation of ideas for esoteric languages and related.

Articles

• On the Turing Completeness Of MS PowerPoint - Turing Machine on PowerPoint.

Oct 20, 2019

Languages

• Lazy K - Minimal, turing-complete pure functional language without extra features.

• Unlambda - Obfuscated functional programming.

Oct 19, 2019

Articles

• Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding - Post by Yevgeniy Brikman describing different programming paradigms that are not commonly applied.

• The Fun (and Madness) of Esoteric Programming Languages - Straightforward introduction to esoteric languages with examples.

Oct 18, 2019

Languages

• Orca - Livecoding environment to quickly create procedural audio sequencers.

Aug 15, 2019

Languages

• Vigil (⭐2.8k) - Only Vigil is truly vigilant about not allowing code that fails to pass programmatic specifications.

Jan 28, 2019

Resources

• Esoteric Codes - Articles and documents collection.

Dec 03, 2018

Languages

• Charcoal (⭐196) - Concise language for sketching ASCII art.

Sep 29, 2018

Languages

• Chicken - Only 1 valid symbol: 'chicken'.

• Thue (⭐25) - Matrioshka language based on nondeterministic string rewriting of a semi-Thue grammar.

Resources

• DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - List of esoteric languages and algorithms written by dangermouse.

Aug 28, 2018

Languages

• Enterprise™ (⭐1.6k) - Non deterministic unnecessarily statically typed language.

• Rockstar (⭐72) - Designed for creating computer programs that are also song lyrics.

Mar 07, 2018

Languages

• Omgrofl - Syntax resembling Internet slang.

Jan 28, 2018

Languages

• Emojicode - Full-blown programming language consisting of emojis.

Jan 25, 2018

Languages

• Fetlang (⭐1.5k) - Designed such that source code looks like poorly written fetish erotica.

Sep 09, 2017

Languages

• Z - Use only the letter z.

Apr 24, 2017

Resources

• Rosettacode - Provides examples in different languages, including esoteric languages.

Articles

• Let's Build a Basic Interpreter (Ruslan's Blog) - Series of articles explaining the basics of compilers and interpreters and how to build one.

Apr 23, 2017

Languages

• Befunge - Two-dimensional language.

• Brainfuck - Minimalist language using only 8 single-character commands.

• Chef - Programs that look like cooking recipes.

• JSFuck (⭐7.7k) - Esoteric programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript.

• reMorse - Morse-styled language.

• Shakespeare - Language where the code appear to be Shakespearean plays.

• Whitespace - Use only white-characters (space, tabs and newlines).

Resources

• Esolang - Wiki of esoteric programming languages and related Resources.

Community

• Freenode IRC Channel - The #esoteric IRC channel on freenode.

• Reddit Esolangs - Reddit community on esolangs.

Apr 10, 2017

Languages

• Suzy (⭐8) - 3D language inspired in Befunge.

Mar 14, 2017

Languages

• ChuckScript (⭐31) - Unary-based language, where the code is a single number.

• DNA# - Language based on the structure of the DNA.

• LolCode - Language with keywords based on the lolcat meme expressions.

• Ook! - Brainfuck-based language, where the commands are orangutan words.

• Unary - Brainfuck-based language where all the commands are 0.

• Velato - Language that uses MIDI files as source, programs are defined by the pitch and order of notes.

• Whenever - Language that does things whenever it wants.

Resources

• Wikipedia/Esoteric programming languages - Wikipedia list of esoteric languages.

Mar 05, 2017

Resources

• Esofiles (⭐89) - The Esoteric Files Archive, an archive of implementations of esoteric programming languages and examples.