Nördnytt! 🤓Small Programs and Languages
- zzo38computer - 21900 sekunder sedanI have written some useful small programs in uxn, such as: hex decoder in 39 bytes (which handles optional spaces and line breaks, uppercase and lowercase, etc), a program to convert JSON to NDJSON in 125 bytes, a program to convert DER to a subset of TER in 220 bytes, BLAKE2s in 1024 bytes (although some of it is padding for alignment, which is why it comes out to exactly 1024), a card game (including graphics, sound effects, fonts, scoring, etc) in 1853 bytes, etc. (These do not always check for errors (although the card game does check that you had made a valid move), which is one of the things that makes them short; since you might want such things sometimes that makes other programs longer, and this is not specific to uxn or to programs I wrote.) Other people might have also done.
The description of uxn and varvara are also small and might need only two pages (I did not write it).
I also remember reading in a book that someone made a game on Atari in 2 kilobytes, and described how they could make it fit (by making the map symmetric, etc), which was rejected because they had 4 kilobyte cartridges by then. (The article in this submission also links to a different game that (probably) someone else made in 2 kilobytes, but this time with JavaScript and HTML. Atari and uxn/varvara are much simpler systems than HTML/JavaScript, though.)
- shikaan - 4575 sekunder sedanGreat read (: This is precisely how I learn, even though these days it all feels a little futile.
The other part for me is working within tight constraints. A couple of years back I made an Operating System that fits a bootloader (I was low-key hoping to find in the list :P) Not really golfing but surely a good exercise in playing within constraints.
If anybody wants to take a look https://github.com/shikaan/osle
- bryancoxwell - 29657 sekunder sedanThis was such an enjoyable read. I’ve been a bit meh on software development recently and this really re-piqued some old interests.
- rramadass - 19848 sekunder sedanLittle Languages by Jon Bentley - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989069
Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages by Randy Kaplan - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471597538?lv=shuf&channelId=500&p...
- anthk - 22474 sekunder sedanhttps://t3x.org
Also, JimTCL.
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