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Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience

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Re: Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience

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> strips away all need for boilerplate Looks like this includes special optimizations for common problems including hello world (kh) and fizzbuzz (kF), but not 99 bottles of beer. https://vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz/elements

Hmm, that doesn't seem fair. At that point, why not encode a huge library of programming challenges into the language spec to beat all the challenges with just a couple of chars? Oh well, I suppose it's not really a competition in the usual sense so it doesn't really matter. And code golf language comparisons are kind of apples-to-oranges huh.

What about getting a large set of programming challenges as input and finding an esoteric standard library using some optimization algorithm, when combined, can solve any challenge in minimal program size

Such standard library could contain weird operations that, while not specifically solving a single program, would each be pretty hard to grasp in order to use to do something useful

Re: Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience

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> Vyxal aims to bridge the gap between simplicity and "golfability". With code golfing languages, there are inherent tradeoffs between code size and usability/fun. IMO the most important features for minimizing length (assuming the only rule is the interpreter must be published before the challenge) are: * (in Vyxal) Efficient syntax. Not sure what state of the art is anymore but stack-based seems reasonable. * (in V…

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