On: Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show

[xuhu]

Is there a competition where you win by showing something both compact and extraordinary but not obfuscated ? Like zlib compression in 100 lines or some song recognition using FFT in X lines, or a working ssh client in Y lines ?

[nneonneo → xuhu]

This is generally called code golf, and there’s a whole forum for it: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

I think once you try to get something small enough the code will naturally tend towards obfuscation.

[frakt0x90 → xuhu]

Demoscene? Mostly geared towards graphics but that's one example.

[boffinAudio → xuhu]

There is the 10-line BASIC Coding competition, which is frankly AWESOME:

https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/copy-of-rules

Some of the winners of the last few years have been extraordinary - complete arcade games, with physics, in just 10 lines of BASIC. This competition definitely highlights the issue we have with software development, which is that we, as a species, don't generally get really good at it for decades...