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I would like to create a language that is specifically designed for compiling/translating to another Turing tarpit language. I want to make the program of the target language to be as short as ...
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I'm pretty new to code golfing, but I recently came across a guy on Kattis that consistently has exactly 5 character Bash solutions for some problems. For example, here is a leaderboard showing his 5 ...
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What general tips do you have for golfing in ☾ (Moon)? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to ☾ (e.g. "remove ...
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We already have a few language-specific tips threads for languages which fall under the array-language umbrella, but there are many golfing tricks which are more or less universal among these ...
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Maple is designed for mathematical computation, with a focus on symbolic algebra, calculus, and data visualization. I’m experimenting with code golf in Maple and want to make my scripts as concise as ...
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Sidef, created by Daniel Șuteu, is designed for expressive, compact code, especially in mathematical domains (e.g., number theory, combinatorics). I’m diving into code golf challenges using Sidef and ...
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Fortran is a compiled imperative language known for its numerical and scientific computing strengths. It blends traditional procedural programming with some modern features like array operations. What ...
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COBOL is a high-level, compiled programming language designed for business applications, readability, and long-term maintainability. It emphasizes verbose syntax, English-like readability, and robust ...
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What are some general tips you have for golfing in Bespoke? I want answers that are specific to Bespoke (e.g. don't just say "remove comments"). One tip per answer. Esolangs page ...
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Zig is a low-level, statically typed, and compiled systems programming language designed for safety, performance, and simplicity. It provides direct control over hardware with an emphasis on explicit ...
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I have the following Python code, which is 214 bytes long: ...
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There isn't a builtin in golfscript which lets you rotate a bigger portion of the stack than the three top-most elements. It should take one number n as argument and rotate the nth value from the top, ...
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The following code is 47 characters. print(("Ekki v","V")["COV"in input()]+"eikur!") How can it be reduced to 46 or less? I ...
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What general tips do you have for golfing in Emmental? It is a self-modifying language defined by a meta-circular interpreter, so I wonder if there are tips for golfing for this esoteric programming ...
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What general tips do you have for golfing in Acc!!? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Acc!! (e.g. "remove comments&...
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Recursion is actually quite powerful, sometimes its doesn't look like that child problem of itself exist, but recursion is just helpful. One case per answer.
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I'm currently converting a Float32Array to an Int32Array for input to a real-time audio raw PCM to MP3 recording application. <...
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This will be a bit of a different challenge. Back in 2023, I developed a 2D esolang called Electra, and looking back at my hello world program, (which is 582 bytes by the way) I see a lot of room for ...
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I am exploring a unique approach to the classic problem of Reverse Polish Notation on code.golf. Unlike the conventional solutions, my focus lies on leveraging the ...
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What general tips do you have for golfing in Uiua? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are specific to Uiua. (e.g. "remove comments" would not be ...
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I recently tried to produce the shortest C code possible to display all its command line arguments (which are stored in argv). I ended with a relatively small piece of code, and I was wondering if ...
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The reason for this question is because I made a deadlineless bounty and I need a tips question to link in the bounty Vyxal 3 is the third major version of the Vyxal golfing language. As it is ...
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What is the shortest selector (by character count) to select ALL html elements on a web page, without using asterisk (*)? Some examples are the following: ...
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I wrote a code that separates the numbers from 1 to 9999 by comma void p(n){printf("%d,",n);if(n<9999){p(n+1);}}main(){p(1);} Is there a way to make ...
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Not sure if it's correct to ask such a question on this site, but let's try. Let a(n) be a sequence of positive integer such that a(1) = 1. To reproduce the sequence a(n) through itself, use the ...
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The aim of this post is to gather all the tips that can often be applied to radiation-hardening challenges. Please only post answers which can apply to a large number of languages, and one tip per ...
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Some built-in functions in PHP return mixed types, like file_get_contents that returns both string or ...
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I have the following Haskell code to generate the the values of the Fibonacci sequence which are even as an infinite list: ...
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Anyone got tips for golfing in Thue. One tip per answer, and no tips aplicable to all languages (like remove comments)
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What tips do you have for golfing in (,)? I've found that there are so many ways to make code shorter, and I want more ways. I doubt there even are any tips for (,) that are applicable in the majority ...
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Arturo is a bytecode-compiled/interpreted, garbage-collected general-purpose language filling a role similar to JavaScript, Python and Ruby. It is centered around the concept of blocks, which hold ...
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Bitshift Variations in C Minor by Robert Miles is a Code Golf music piece written in C (with some additional bash commands). It was originally presented in a 2016 Computerphile video Code Golf & ...
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So I got kinda bored and was wondering if it was possible to make this code shorter without modifying anything except a file named coin.py... ...
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Thunno 2 is a stack-based golfing language with around 400 commands (achieved through overloads) created by me, The Thonnu. It seems like a good idea to share some tips for golfing in Thunno 2. Please,...
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I have the code: ...
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I'm trying to solve a CSS challenge. It contains a rotated leaf shape (looks like an eye). Score for the challenge depends on amount of characters of the code. Here's my way to make a leaf shape: <...
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SVG is an XML vector graphics markup language embeddable in web content. Your tips should be at least somewhat specific to SVG. Please post one tip per answer.
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I'm trying to shorten a bash solution to a Code Golf challenge, which requires an output of true or false. I've managed to ...
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Consider: c=(a,b)=>(+a||0)+(+b||0) Yes, it is not good to solve it like that. But I want to shorten it even more. If a is a ...
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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. Does anyone have any tips for this language? Please make sure to post 1 tip per answer, and don't post answers like "remove ...
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Fastest code is a scoring method on this site where the goal is to write code that is as fast as possible. From the tag wiki: The winner of a fastest-code challenge is determined by the runtime ...
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I want to read two strings on separate lines, each string the same length and containing only 0's and 1's, and determine if the first is the one's complement of the second. How succinctly can this be ...
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Does anyone have tips on how to golf in this language? Please one tip per answer and avoid posting simple and general tips such as "remove whitespace". Here is the github link and here is ...
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I have made a short script that will pull dns txt records down from a server and combine them into a single string. DNS txt records are: 1.website.com ...
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If you consider the following PHP+C polyglot snippet, there is a problem regarding class property access in the printf call: ...
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So the golf question was like this: You are given a number T and then a total of T number of 17-character strings. For each of ...
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I could not think of a better title. This is a tips question. I'm asking for tips on golfing my code. I recently took part in a code golf competition in C. The competition ended and I lost. The ...
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Knight is the Language of the Month for August 2022, and I noticed that it didn't have a tips page, so here it is! I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also ...
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So I have the situation where I have one boolean value a and, if that one is true and b<c ...
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