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In my golf language, called stax, each program expressible in plain ASCII has a corresponding representation in a single byte character set. [0] The only reason a program wouldn't start in plain ASCII is the contents of string literals.
The alternate representation generally saves ~15%, as measured in bytes. However, I totally understand the argument about human-unreadable "golfed" code, which is why you can always use the plain ASCII representation if you want.
[0] https://github.com/tomtheisen/stax/blob/master/docs/packed.m...
> * (not in Vyxal) Efficient encoding; Huffman coding at a minimum but ideally arithmetic coding using sophisticated machine learning to predict the next command. It's super inefficient to have each command be 1 or 2 bytes regardless of frequency.
https://github.com/Vyxal/Vyncode
> * (not in Vyxal) Huge numbers of builtins; Vyxal has "only" ~560. Ideally every past code golf question and every OEIS sequence are their own builtin.
To have every single past code golf question as a built-in would be:
a) breaking code golf loopholes