golfing-langs

A (mostly) complete list of languages designed for code-golfing.

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List of golfing languages

Name	Creator	Type	Specialty	Docs	Quick ref	Online interpreter
05AB1E	Adnan	Stack-based	None	GitHub (WIP)	Yes	TIO (Legacy)
Actually (née Seriously)	Ryan Rowe	Stack-based	None	GitHub Wiki (WIP)	Yes	TIO
Arcyóu	Benjamin Kulas	Functional	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
Autovim	Christian Rondeau	Imperative	2D strings	GitHub	See docs	None
Brachylog	Julien Cumin	Declarative	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
Braingolf	Dylan Renwick	Stack-based	None	GitHub	See docs	TIO
Burlesque	Roman Müntener	Stack-based	None	GitHub	Yes	None
Canvas	dzaima	Stack-based	ASCII art	GitHub Wiki (WIP)	At interpreter	Official
Carrot	Kritixi Lithos	String-based	None	GitHub Wiki	WIP	Official
Catholicon (née Panacea)	Okx	Prefix	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	None
Charcoal	E-Hern Lee	Prefix	ASCII art	GitHub Wiki	See docs	TIO
CJam	aditsu	Stack-based	None	Unofficial	Yes	TIO
Element	PhiNotPi	Stack-based	None	GitHub	No	TIO
𝔼𝕊𝕄𝕚𝕟	Benjamin Pang	JS-based (infix)	None	Annotated source	No	Official
FlogScript	Zzo38	Stack-based	None	Esolangs Wiki	See docs	None?
Fuzzy Octo Guacamole	Riker Wachtler	Stack-based	None	GitHub Wiki	WIP	None
Gaia	Business Cat	Stack-based	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
GolfASM	Alex Jeffery	Imperative	None	GitHub	No	None
GolfScript	Darren Smith	Stack-based	None	Official	Yes	TIO
GS2	nooodl	Stack-based	None	GitHub	See docs	TIO
Gulf	FeuerMonster	Prefix (by default)	None	GitHub	See docs	None
Husk	barbuz	Functional	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
JAEL	Eduardo Hoefel	Stack- and tape-based	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
Japt	ETHproductions	JS-based (infix)	None	At interpreter	See docs	Official
Jelly	DennisMitchell	Tacit	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
Jellyfish	Ilkka Törmä	Two-dimensional	None	GitHub	Yes	TIO
Jolf	Conor O'Brien-Foxx	Prefix	None	GitHub	Yes	Official
Keg	JonoCode9374	Stack-based	Strings	Esolangs Wiki	Yes	TIO
MathGolf	maxbergmark	Stack-based	Math	GitHub	Yes	TIO
MATL	Luis Mendo	Stack-based	None	Official (PDF)	Yes	Official
Microscript	Johnathan Waugh	Stack-based	None	GitHub	See docs	None
Microscript II	Johnathan Waugh	Stack-based	None	GitHub	No	None
Milky Way	Zach Gates	Stack-based	None	GitHub	Yes	TIO
Minkolang	Lee Burnette	Stack-based	None	GitHub	See docs	Official
Neim	Okx	Stack-based	None	GitHub Wiki	Yes	TIO
Noodel	tkellehe	Stack-based	ASCII-art animation	GitHub Pages	Yes	Official
O	Jadon Fowler	Stack-based	None	Official	See docs	Official
Oasis	Adnan	Stack-based	Sequences	GitHub	Yes	TIO
Ohm	Nick Clifford	Stack-based	None	GitHub (WIP)	Yes	TIO
Ostrich	KeyboardFire	Stack-based	None	GitHub (Incomplete)	See docs	None
Pip	David Loscutoff	Infix	None	GitHub	Yes	TIO
Pyke	Simon Beal	Stack-based	None	At interpreter	See docs	Official
Pyt	mudkip201	Stack-based	None	GitHub Wiki (WIP)	Yes	TIO
Pyth	isaacg	Prefix	None	Read the Docs	Yes	Official
REBmu	Brian Dickens	Infix	None	Official	No?	None
Retina	Martin Ender	Regex-based	String manipulation	GitHub Wiki	See docs	TIO
Sclipting	Timwi	Stack-based	Unknown	GitHub Wiki	Yes	None
ShinyLisp	Silvio Mayolo	Lisp-based (prefix)	List manipulation	Esolangs Wiki	Yes	None
shortC	Aaron Ryan	C-based (infix)	None	GitHub	See docs	TIO
SOGL	dzaima	Stack-based	String compression	No	Yes	Official
Stax	Tom Theisen	Stack-based	None	Official	Yes	Official
TeaScript	Vihan Bhargava	JS-based (infix)	None	Read the Docs	See interpreter	Official
V	James Harrington	Imperative	2D strings	GitHub Wiki	See docs	TIO
Vitsy	Addison Crump	Stack-based	None	Esolangs Wiki	Yes	TIO

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How to contribute

See Contributing.md. Right now, the list mainly needs more languages and more use for the "Specialty" column.