harbor VS bfc

Thanks for the interesting question! This project started out because I noticed some really interesting properties about compiling brainfuck-like programming languages while writing high level language compilers that targeted these brainfuck-like backends.

This is the work that inspired Sage: Harbor (https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/harbor). My goal with Sage was to take everything that makes a brainfuck-like programming language easy to compile, while also keeping all the time complexity and optimizations of regular algorithms. So, in that sense, it started out as an attempt to design around a Turing machine -- I wanted this to be a dialect of brainfuck.

https://adam-mcdaniel.github.io/harbor https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/harbor

Thank you so much!!! You might also find its parent project interesting! https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/harbor :)

Let me introduce you to production grade brainfuck. We can use https://github.com/Wilfred/bfc to compile it to a native binary with llvm optimizations. But to make it more usable, we can first run it through the c preprocessor (with gcc -E input_file) so we can split our brainfuck into multiple files and macros. Now we are really getting somewhere.