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Langsesoteric

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Esolangs, the hole goes deeper #

An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke.

- Wikipedia - Esoteric Programming Languages

Brainfuck Designer

As a quick tour of esolangs, here are some of my favorites:

Piet

Hello World implemented in Piet (Source)

Spiral

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ROT13 implemented in Spiral

Tree

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Hello World implemented in Tree

Ziim

Hello World implemented in Ziim

Hexagony #

https://github.com/m-ender/hexagony (https://hexagony.net)

Recto #

https://masatohagiwara.net/recto.html

If you’re looking to learn more, check out Awesome Esolangs and https://esolangs.org. Also, the Esoteric IDE may be of use.