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matslina / awib

awib

a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck

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What it is

a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-04-13 10:57:41 UTC to 2021-07-12 15:50:39 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 122021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 242021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 12

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 122021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 192021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 262021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC000
May 32021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC000
May 102021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC000
May 172021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC000
May 242021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC000
May 312021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 72021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 142021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 212021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 282021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 52021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 122021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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DonHopkins·Jul 12, 2021
Shouldn't the point of doing something as practically useless as compiling brainfuck be to do it in the most difficult way possible? I'm more impressed by a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=697501 https://github.com/matslina/awib Awib is a brainfuck compiler entirely written in brainfuck. Awib implements several optimization strategies and its compiled output outperforms that of many other brainfuck compilers Awib is itself a 4-language polyglot and can be run/compiled as brainfuck, Tcl, C and bash Awib has 6 separate backends and is capable of compiling brainfuck source code to Linux executables (i386) and five programming languages: C, Tcl, Go, Ruby and Java
In I wrote a 231-byte Brainfuck compiler by abusing everything

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