Request: more esoteric languages

[rbergen]

I'd like to put a request out to potential contributors to add solutions for more esoteric languages. We have some in the collection, but many more exist. At some point, I'd love to have a solution for each of the languages listed on the Wikipedia page discussing the concept of esoteric programming language, at least.

[cmester0]

I have a solution in a higher level language compiled to Piet (https://github.com/cmester0/Piet/blob/main/Rust/tests/advc/primes.advc), I can generate the Piet solution if you would like it.

[rbergen]

@cmester0 I'd love a proper solution in Piet! Ideally, we should be able to "compile" the Piet solution to what actually gets executed.

Just out of curiosity and chancing a blatant exposure of complete ignorance on my part, but what's the higher-level language in the file you referred to?

[cmester0]

I have made a compiler stack to code Piet solutions easier. So this "high level language" is a simple language with function calls, local and global variables, and a simple standard library. So I am not coding the solution directly in Piet, but have some levels of abstraction on top of Piet. The compiled version is here: https://github.com/cmester0/Piet/blob/main/examples/primes.png

[rbergen]

I understand. In that case it wasn't strange I didn't recognise the language.

I'd love to add a Piet solution to the collection. To make it a "proper" one, we'd need:

• The source code from which the Piet solution can be generated.
• The compiler that turns it into a Piet solution.
• A Piet interpreter that can execute the Piet solution.
• A Dockerfile that ties everything together and executes the Piet solution in such a way that it runs a sieve with an upper limit of 1,000,000 and prints the number of primes that were identified.

I've found a Piet interpreter here: https://github.com/your-diary/piet_programming_language. I'm also happy to help with the composition of the Dockerfile, if needed.