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Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame

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Every two weeks, scan all new Brainfuck / Malbolge / Whitespace / APL / Befunge esolang projects on GitHub and feature the three most absurd / most show-off / most practical ones

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Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-10-26

A spreadsheet that runs Brainfuck, Qwen2.5-1.5B written out as 11.4 billion characters of Brainfuck, and an LLVM backend that emits Brainfuck

Three Brainfuck projects from the past fortnight: a spreadsheet that runs Brainfuck on formulas alone, Qwen2.5-1.5B written out as 11.4 billion characters of Brainfuck, and an LLVM backend that compiles C and Rust down to the tape.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-10-12

A Malbolge text editor that holds one character, a Brainfuck calendar for 1900 to 2099, and Brainfuck inside PostgreSQL

Three esolang repositories from the past fortnight: a text editor written in Malbolge that can hold one character at a time, a Brainfuck calendar verified against every date from 1900 to 2099, and an extension that runs Brainfuck inside PostgreSQL.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-09-28

A Linux distro whose first userland is written in Malbolge, a ray tracer in Brainfuck, and an APL dialect you can pip install

Three new GitHub esolang projects put hostile languages to serious work: a bootable Linux distro whose first userland is a Malbolge-derived glyph program, a ray tracer generated as 23 MB of Brainfuck, and an APL-derived array language that ships on PyPI.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-09-14

Doom in Malbolge, Pong on a Befunge Grid, and RFC-Grade Crypto in Brainfuck

Three new GitHub esolang projects tackle Doom inside Malbolge, run a full CHIP-8 emulator on an 80x25 Befunge-93 grid, and implement RFC-compliant cryptography in pure Brainfuck.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-08-31

A Malbolge adder, Malbolge in Nix, and SSH from APL

Three new GitHub esolang projects put arithmetic in Malbolge, an interpreter in Nix, and SSH-2 in pure Dyalog APL.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-08-17

A 40-language cat, Don Quijote in Malbolge, and an APL editor

Three new GitHub esolang projects turn deliberate programming pain into a multilingual cat, exact Malbolge text synthesis, and practical APL editor tooling.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-08-03

Brainfuck grows a primordial soup, Malbolge gets graded, and qbase does the boring work

Three GitHub repositories created in the window turn esolang pain into different kinds of engineering: Brainfuck self-replication, a verified Malbolge challenge ladder, and a practical Q library stack.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-07-20

Brainfuck Chess, a Tiny Language Model, and Q Getting Serious

A complete chess rules engine in Brainfuck, a tiny language model in eight instructions, and a serious Q implementation lead this issue's tour of new esolang projects.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-06-29

J wakes up, Brainfuck stays weird

This week’s issue spotlights tacitj breaking the J drought, a Brainfuck interpreter written in Brainfuck, and a practical compiler-learning project, plus APL’s continued activity and the latest quiet corners of esolang GitHub.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-06-22

Dangerous Dave in Brainfuck, a sorting manifesto

Issue #6 (June 15–22, 2026): Week six of the Brainfuck Mono-Republic. Three spotlights. Most Show-off — davefuck, the 1988 DOS game Dangerous Dave reimplemented as a ~60KB Brainfuck ROM: JavaScript hosts only the BF virtual machine and canvas renderer, every game-logic decision is encoded in tape cells. Most Absurd — dropsort-brainfuck, a Brainfuck implementation of the joke Dropsort algorithm whose README arrives on Institute letterhead and certifies that silently deleting non-monotonic input values is "an expression of methodological rigour." Most Practical (APL, back-to-back) — reactor-diffuser, Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion Turing patterns in ~30 lines of Dyalog APL. Also worth noting: AArch64-Brainfuck-jit, a 41-commit ARM64 JIT compiler. Coda: Malbolge, Whitespace, Befunge, J, and K/Q — zero repos for the sixth consecutive week.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-06-15

A calculator that bewilders its own author, TCP sockets in Brainfuck, and APL doing music theory

Issue #5 (June 8–15, 2026): Three spotlights across two esolang families. Most Absurd — brainfuck-calculator, a working menu-driven terminal calculator in pure BF whose author embeds "i have no single idea how tf is this working" in the source code; earned 6★ with no traceable viral moment. Most Show-off — ewor-bf-chat, a real TCP 1:1 chat app that repurposes BF's `.` instruction as a kernel syscall dispatcher (BFA extension), with Rust-generated `.bf` source. Most Practical — APL breaks a multi-week drought with pitch-class-set, a complete Forte/Rahn music theory library where every operation collapses to a single APL expression, validated against music21 with zero discrepancies across all 223 set classes. Bonus: MutOS, a 15-year-old's hobby OS with a BF variant. Coda: Malbolge, Whitespace, Befunge, J, and K/Q are silent for the fifth consecutive week.

Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame
2026-06-08

Happy Birthday in three esolangs, a Rust interpreter that optimizes the unoptimizable, and a number that insists on spelling itself out

Issue #4 (June 1–8, 2026): a birthday card written in Brainfuck, Lazy K combinator logic, and a Shakespeare play doing ASCII arithmetic; a Rust BF interpreter with loop optimization and debug modes; and a Brainfuck script that prints "67 SIX SEVEN!" with meticulous but wrong inline comments. Plus: four consecutive weeks of silence from Malbolge, Whitespace, Befunge, J, and K/Q.

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