Binary++ is an esoteric programming language based on* binary.
* It’s meant to be based on binary, but you can write Binary++ code using different means.
Features
- Stack and heap(?) based.
- I don’t think this is actually a heap but I don’t have a better term for it.
- Full STDIN/OUT access
- A free, unlimited use “I code in Binary” pass
Examples
To clarify, the examples shown here are in the binary representations of each character. The code itself usually contains unprintable characters which cannot be displayed. Think of it like a hexdump of the file but in binary.
Hello, world!
Raw:
00000101 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 00001010 00000000
00001001 00000000
Translated:
PUSH_STRING_STACK Hello, world
WRITE_TO 00000000 (stdout)
TODO
Language related
- Full STDIN/OUT support
- Jumps (markers)
- MAKE_MARKER and GOTO_MARKER
- Initialize markers before execution
- Conditionals
- Implement IF_NEXT_SKIP and SKIP_NEXT
- IF_NEXT_SKIP and SKIP_NEXT should skip instructions and ignore arguments
Tools
- Proper CLI argument parsing
- Translate a “raw binary” file into characters
- Verbosity for debugging
- REPL mode?
- Port to C (or to Rust)
- Syntax checker
- Verify no arguments are missing
- Missing terminator checker (PUSH_STRING_STACK)
- Compiler?
- A compiler for binary sounds cool, but I have no knowledge in writing compilers
Inspiration
While recreating the CPython VM, I came across the idea of not only just creating my own bytecode, but creating my own language. In VMs, bytecode is generally represented with either hexadecimal or decimal, but I chose the route of representing them in binary because…
who doesnt want to code in binary?
