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Developer writes a working ray tracer in Brainfuck, then speeds up its interpreter

Post reaches Hacker News front page and spreads to Reddit, Mastodon

1 Yesterday 6:08 AM · 1d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 2

The write-up was submitted to Hacker News (front page, 8 points at time of RSS capture), cross-posted to Reddit, and picked up by Mastodon bot accounts tracking HN, spreading the project beyond the original blog.

“So I picked the simplest language I knew, BF, because a simple language obviously results in a very simple codebase.”

epestr, Author · hn ↗

epestr Author of the Brainfuck ray tracerTSoding Author of the JIT compiler epestr's interpreter is based on

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1Post reaches Hacker News front page and…2epestr reports speeding up the BF JIT…
8 AM4 PMtoday8 AMnow · 2:29 PM ET

Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

    first by HN Frontpage, 1d ago

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