Weird Ones: 30 years of Brainfuck

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  • BrainBash

    A heavily optimizing Brain**** interpreter written in Bash!

    It's an interesting/challenging exercise to work through implementing some basic functions in BF, ie thinking only in loops.

    I implemented an optimizing interpreter in Bash[1] on a plane ride, and it's still one of my favorite pet projects.

    [1]: https://github.com/Gandalf-/BrainBash

  • BF-JIT

    BrainFuck interpreter and optimizing JIT compiler

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  • bf

    Fast brainfuck interpreter in C (by siraben)

    Brainfuck makes it very easy to benchmark various optimizations that you can do to its interpreter.[0] Rendering a Mandelbrot set goes from 28.57 to 6.49 seconds with basic preprocessing!

    [0] https://github.com/siraben/bf

  • quine-relay

    An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages

    Quine relay [1] is to this day the most "I will never understand this" brainfuck project I have ever seen.

    [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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