Is there any use for brainfuck?
Is there any use for brainfuck?
Nolan Miller
Robert Rogers
it's literally my fetish
Blake Torres
Are there brainfuck interpreters written in brainfuck?
Gavin Foster
good for code golf
Jack Jones
great for making hacks for CSGO
Samuel Gonzalez
Yep
Ryder Perez
No. It was not designed to actually be used, but rather, just to see what the smallest programming language one could make is.
Brandon Torres
Who knows
Xavier Powell
Teaches you to think in terms of simple operations when programming. It's kind of like a Turing machine, and kind of like assembly programming, so I guess getting good at brainfuck could help with either of those.
It's also a pretty simple language to implement, so if you have some esoteric language or platform, writing a brainfuck interpreter or compiler in it can be a good challenge.
Kayden Clark
Actually brainfuck might be a good language to teach basic AIs to write via machine learning.
Ian Baker
One of these days I'll sit down and make an interpreter for Brainfuck in Haskell, already have an idea how I'm gonna do that
Parker Rogers
It has been proposed for use as a control language for nanomachines:
niac.usra.edu
Charles White
why not use printf as turing complete brainfuck interpreter?
can't find the 32c3 presentation right now. not sure which one it was
Jaxson King
those jpeg artifacts are really fucking my brain
Wyatt James
It's for your own good.
Adam Gutierrez
Program proving
Lincoln James
Elijah Harris
There is a brainfuck compiler written in Brainfuck.
Brayden Clark
Does it output machine code?
Christian Nguyen
It is an awesome technology demonstrator for the simplest language you can write. And simplest language kinda means simplest compiler so if you were asked to go from silicon to compiler and a few simple programs you'd know the answer.
Immediate use case is not that important in research. Most math theorems don't get practical use that much until they solve a very important problem in some application.
Levi Edwards
no, it outputs brainfuck
Henry Rogers
godspeed magnificent motherfucker
Andrew Evans
> Not installing a fork of gentoo rewritten entirely in brainfuck
plebeians get out