Exploring brainfuck: Crafting a good interpreter.
October 01, 2023 —
matthilde
Brainfuck is a simple esoteric programming language invented by Urban Muller in the 90s. This programming language contains 8 rather low-level commands to control a tape and perform operations on it. Despite its extreme minimalism, it is a Turing-complete programming language (meaning you can in theory write any algorithm with it) and that means there is room for a lot of wild cool stuff to do on it :). In this series of blogposts (hoping it does actually turn into a series), I will explore brainfuck and see what I can make out of this simple language.