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Brainfuck is largely a joke for most developers, but in certain kinds of research it is taken very seriously due to its ease of implementation. I think this is

Brainfuck is largely a joke for most developers, but in certain kinds of research it is taken very seriously due to its ease of implementation. I think this is probably the most interesting paper involving it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108 https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108 > In this paper we take a step towards understanding how self-replicators arise by studying several computational substrates based on various simple programming languages and machine instruction sets.

Vegenoid 2y ago
There’s a good episode of the Mindscape podcast (hosted by Sean Carroll) interviewing one of the authors (Blaise Agüera y Arcas) about the paper: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-blaise-aguera-y-arcas-on-the-emergence-of-replication-and-computation/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-...