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Isn't the whole purpose of golfing to write compact in higher level languages? If writing the lower level is too hard, it's no different to jars, pyc, or x86 fi
by posix86 3y ago
Isn't the whole purpose of golfing to write compact in higher level languages? If writing the lower level is too hard, it's no different to jars, pyc, or x86 files.
- spencerflem 3y agoYeah, totally. I guess really the way to think about it is that any code golfing problem is a separate competition between each language. What's the shortest you can get in JS, in Java, in Pyth etc. Languages made just for golfing, and how many of them there are, seem a little silly, but theyre cute to look at and fun to make i'm sure. Its art :p Not complaining.
- MrZander 3y agoI agree. I used to frequent codegolf.stackexchange.com but nowadays it's just a bunch of 2 character solutions in 50 different home-grown golfing languages. Golfing languages can be fun, but they do feel like something totally different than trying to make a 200 line C program run in 200 bytes.