Awesome Esolangs – Massive Collection of Resources

“An esoteric programming language, or esolang, is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use.”
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Contents

• Languages
• Algorithms
• Others
• Resources
• Articles
• Community

Languages

• 1+ – A surprisingly user-friendly language with a highly-limited instruction set.
• 78 – A single-character command language focused around the numbers 7 and 8.
• ajsone – Language defined completely in JSON.
• AlmostBinary – Code in binary and run on any platform.
• ArnoldC – Based on the best one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Befunge – Two-dimensional language.
• Brackets – Language made of brackets, a lot of brackets.
• Brainfuck – Minimalist language using only 8 single-character commands.
• C Flat – Musical language focused on sound rather than notation with creative freedom in mind.
• Charcoal – Concise language for sketching ASCII art.
• Chef – Programs that look like cooking recipes.
• Chicken – Only 1 valid symbol: ‘chicken’.
• ChuckScript – Unary-based language, where the code is a single number.
• DNA# – Language based on the structure of the DNA.
• Dots – A turing-complete language using “.” symbol only.
• Emojicode – Full-blown programming language consisting of emojis.
• Enterprise™ – Non deterministic unnecessarily statically typed language.
• False – Heavily offuscated language with a minimal implementation.
• Fetlang – Designed such that source code looks like poorly written fetish erotica.
• Folders – Code written with folders.
• Fugue – Music as source code.
• Golfscript – Stack oriented, aimed at solving problems in as few keystrokes as possible.
• Haifu – Designed with the core values of Easter philosophy in mind.
• INTERCAL – Parody language intended to be completely different from other languages.
• Japt – Reduced JavaScript for golfing.
• Jelly – Golfing language based on J.
• JSFuck – Esoteric programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript.
• Lazy K – Minimal, turing-complete pure functional language without extra features.
• legit – Programs defined entirely by the graph of the git repository instead of its contents.
• LolCode – Language with keywords based on the lolcat meme expressions.
• Malbolge – Named after the 8th level of hell, is designed to be as difficult as possible to program.
• Monicelli – Programming using Italian-like gibberish.
• Ni – Brainfuck-based with more helpful instructions.
• Omgrofl – Syntax resembling Internet slang.
• Ook! – Brainfuck-based language, where the commands are orangutan words.
• Orca – Livecoding environment to quickly create procedural audio sequencers.
• reMorse – Morse-styled language.
• Rockstar – Designed for creating computer programs that are also song lyrics.
• Piet – Language in which programs look like abstract paintings using colors as code. Named after Piet Mondrian.
• Shakespeare – Language where the code appear to be Shakespearean plays.
• Spooky – The scariest programming language 🎃 💀.
• Suzy – 3D language inspired in Befunge.
• Technologic – Language in which programs look like the lyrics to the Daft Punk song Technologic.
• Thue – Matrioshka language based on nondeterministic string rewriting of a semi-Thue grammar.
• Tru – A stack-based language with prefix-free brackets.
• TrumpScript – Make Python great again.
• Turtle – Uses long-term storage for memory use.
• Unary – Brainfuck-based language where all the commands are 0.
• Unlambda – Obfuscated functional programming.
• Velato – Language that uses MIDI files as source, programs are defined by the pitch and order of notes.
• Vigil – Only Vigil is truly vigilant about not allowing code that fails to pass programmatic specifications.
• Watson – Stack-based Turing-incomplete configuration files.
• 文言 (Wenyan) – Closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature.
• Whenever – Language that does things whenever it wants.
• Whitespace – Use only white-characters (space, tabs and newlines).
• WordLang – A language based on meaning-like grammar that produces output.
• Z – Use only the letter z.
• ZOMBIE – Inherently evil multithreaded language designed for Necromancers.

Algorithms

• πfs – 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.

Others

• asmbf – The only true brainfuck assembler toolkit.
• CSS-only-chat – A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend.
• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition – Simple FizzBuzz game implemented under the most strict enterprise standards.
• NoCode – Secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.
• Petrovich – Operating System concept based on random actions and rewards/punishments.
• vapor.js – The World’s Smallest & Fastest JavaScript Library.

Resources

• DM’s Esoteric Programming Languages – List of esoteric languages and algorithms written by dangermouse.
• Esofiles – The Esoteric Files Archive, an archive of implementations of esoteric programming languages and examples.
• Esolang – Wiki of esoteric programming languages and related Resources.
• Esoteric Codes – Articles and documents collection.
• Rosettacode – Provides examples in different languages, including esoteric languages.
• Wikipedia/Esoteric programming languages – Wikipedia list of esoteric languages.
• Esolang List of ideas – Compilation of ideas for esoteric languages and related.

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

Community

• Anarchy Golf – Informal golfing problems server.
• Code Golf Stack Exchange – Golfing problems and answers.
• Freenode IRC Channel – The #esoteric IRC channel on freenode.
• Reddit Esolangs – Reddit community on esolangs.