awesome-esolangs

A stack-based 2d language with support for reflection

A surprisingly user-friendly language with a highly-limited instruction set

78

A single-character command language focused around the numbers 7 and 8

Language defined completely in JSON

AlmostBinary

Code in binary and run on any platform

Based on the best one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Two-dimensional language

Brackets

Language made of brackets, a lot of brackets

Minimalist language using only 8 single-character commands

C Flat

Musical language focused on sound rather than notation with creative freedom in mind

CellTail

A 1d celular automata based language, supports a complex pattern matching syntax

Charcoal

Concise language for sketching ASCII art

Programs that look like cooking recipes

Only 1 valid symbol: 'chicken'

ChuckScript

Unary-based language, where the code is a single number

Brainfuck variant using twelve variations of as instructions

Language based on the structure of the DNA

Dots

A turing-complete language using "." symbol only

Electra

Code like an electrician

Full-blown programming language consisting of emojis

Enterprise™

Non deterministic unnecessarily statically typed language

Heavily obfuscated language with a minimal implementation

Fetlang

Designed such that source code looks like poorly written fetish erotica

FlipJump

1 instruction: Flip a bit, then Jump. The simplest OISC

Folders

Code written with folders

FreakC

Full-blown programming language with NSFW contents and memes

Music as source code

Stack oriented, aimed at solving problems in as few keystrokes as possible

Designed with the core values of Eastern philosophy in mind

Parody language intended to be completely different from other languages

Japt

Reduced JavaScript for golfing

Jelly

Golfing language based on J

Brainfuck-based with delicious jelly

JSFuck

Esoteric programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript

Minimal, turing-complete pure functional language without extra features

Programs defined entirely by the graph of the git repository instead of its contents

Language with keywords based on the lolcat meme expressions

Named after the 8th level of hell, is designed to be as difficult as possible to program

Monicelli

Programming using Italian-like gibberish

Ni

Brainfuck-based with more helpful instructions

Syntax resembling Internet slang

Brainfuck-based language, where the commands are orangutan words

Livecoding environment to quickly create procedural audio sequencers

Language in which programs look like abstract paintings using colors as code. Named after Piet Mondrian

RASEL

Fungeoid with no limits on program space, float precision, and with a bit of random access to stack

Morse-styled language

Rockstar

Designed for creating computer programs that are also song lyrics

Language where the code appear to be Shakespearean plays

The scariest programming language

Suzy

3D language inspired in Befunge

Language in which programs look like the lyrics to the Daft Punk song Technologic

Thue

language based on nondeterministic string rewriting of a semi-Thue grammar

Tru

A stack-based language with prefix-free brackets

TrumpScript

Make Python great again

Turtle

Uses long-term storage for memory use

Brainfuck-based language where all the commands are 0

Obfuscated functional programming

Language that uses MIDI files as source, programs are defined by the pitch and order of notes

Vigil

Only Vigil is truly vigilant about not allowing code that fails to pass programmatic specifications

Watson

Stack-based Turing-incomplete configuration files

Closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature

Language that does things whenever it wants

Use only white-characters (space, tabs and newlines)

A language based on meaning-like grammar that produces output

Use only the letter z

Inherently evil multithreaded language designed for Necromancers

πfs

Pi-based storage system, store your data by searching a matching sequence in pi

Sorts a list by searching answers in Stack Overflow and executing code snippets until is sorted

asmbf

The only true brainfuck assembler toolkit

CSS-only-chat

A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend

FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

Simple FizzBuzz game implemented under the most strict enterprise standards

MalbolgeLisp

A Lisp interpreter in Malbolge Unshackled

NoCode

Secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere

Operating System concept based on random actions and rewards/punishments

vapor.js

The World's Smallest & Fastest JavaScript Library

List of esoteric languages and algorithms written by dangermouse

Esofiles

The Esoteric Files Archive, an archive of implementations of esoteric programming languages and examples

Wiki of esoteric programming languages and related Resources

Articles and documents collection

Provides examples in different languages, including esoteric languages

Wikipedia list of esoteric languages

Compilation of ideas for esoteric languages and related

Series of articles explaining the basics of compilers and interpreters and how to build one

Post by Yevgeniy Brikman describing different programming paradigms that are not commonly applied

Straightforward introduction to esoteric languages with examples

Turing Machine on PowerPoint

Informal problems server

Golfing problems and answers

The #esoteric IRC channel on freenode

Reddit community on esolangs

A Discord community about esoteric languages