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esolang the esoteric programming languages wiki we are currently working on new rules for what content should and shouldn t be allowed on this website and are looking for feedback see esolang 2026 topicality proposal to view and give feedback on the current draft main page from esolang jump to navigation jump to search welcome to esolang the esoteric programming languages wiki this wiki is dedicated to the fostering and documentation of programming languages designed to be unique difficult to program in or just plain weird why not join us on irc for readers you ll probably want to find out what on earth an esoteric programming language is in the first place then you might want to explore the complete list of languages or find something more specific with the categories you could also visit the joke language list which lists languages that can t even be programmed in failing that you could take a look at a random language you could also take a look at the list of special pages featured language thue is an esoteric programming language based around the idea of a semi thue system a system which specifies strings that can be rewritten to certain other strings a program is simply a list of search strings and possible replacements for them as a nondeterministic language a program has the potential to halt if there is some way to reach an end state via applying replacements even if rules such as always apply the first replacement would lead to an infinite loop no data storage is necessary apart from a single string that holds the entire state of the running program although this often causes programs to run slowly due to delays in communicating information from one part of the string to another more previously featured funciton brainfuck deadfish emmental more for creators if you ve just created a language you can create an article for it by typing its name into the search box assuming the name is not already taken but be sure to take a look at the help guide first then you should add it to the language list or the joke language list as appropriate if you haven t got that far yet you could take a look at the list of ideas for inspiration otherwise you could help out with an esolang in progress meta learn about this wiki check out the recent changes view the site policies download an xml dump of the wiki content discuss the wiki on the community portal s talk page talk with other esolang enthusiasts in the places listed in the community portal since april 2005 8 222 articles have been created with 189 378 edits including 7 379 esoteric languages there are 9 431 registered users retrieved from https esolangs org w index php title main_page oldid 189456 navigation menu personal tools create account log in namespaces main page discussion english views read view source view history more search navigation main page community portal language list browse by category recent changes random page help tools what links here related changes special pages printable version permanent link page information this page was last edited on 18 august 2026 at 11 21 content is available under cc0 public domain dedication about esolang disclaimers