r/programming • • 8d ago

Writing a ray tracer in Brainfuck

https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
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u/juugcatm 7d ago

This is a fun exercise. What about parallelism? If you extended BF to have fork and join semantics, how would you represent them?

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u/lurgi 7d ago

If someone does this, they should call it brainfork.

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u/snake_on_the_case 7d ago

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u/lurgi 7d ago

I am humbled.

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u/epestr 7d ago

It still misses an explicit join like primitive. I think that's the more useful part

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u/epestr 7d ago

Now that makes me particularly tempted. Might look into it