AsciiDots!

This one was a long time coming. AsciiDots is the second most artistic
programming language behind Piet....well, third most artistic if you count
Velato...but AsciiDots is still the second most VISUALLY ARTISTIC
programming language...
Note: The AsciiDots documentation mentions the ability to take in input and have it get stored as an ASCII character, but that doesn't seem to work on the interpreter that I used.
DESCRIPTION OF TRUTH-MACHINE
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1. Take in input as a zero or one.
2. If the input is zero, output a single zero and stop.
3. If the output is one, output ones in a never ending loop.
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More information about the truth-machine can be found on
esolangs.org/wiki/Truth-machine
LINKS
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motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar...
coolest-looking-programming-language
asciidots.herokuapp.com
github.com/aaronduino/asciidots
MUSIC
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Birdland by Weather Report MIDI from:
steve8002.tripod.com/Midi.htm
Upbeat Forever by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
Swirl by Waterflame ( / waterflame89 )
Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass MIDI from:
www.lsjunction.com/midi/songs.htm
TRUTTLE1'S SOCIAL MEDIA THINGS
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Twitter:
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[@lutpoint7169]

Imagine writing an Operating system in AsciiDots

[@nyakase]

SufferingOS

[@signisot5264]

It would probably look like block programming, as you would just create the smallest possible form of gates to copy and paste wherever needed. I'm pretty sure 90% of programmers tasked with creating something complex in Asciidots would create a very vertical program that looks like other programming languages anyways

[@lutpoint7169]

@@nyakase the slogan should be “If you hate your life!”

[@aaronjanse6448]

"One sec I gotta connect to WiFi" *opens text editor*

[@DJruslan4ic]

ASCIIOS

[@Callie_Cosmo]

ASCIIdots is like breadboarding but without the only reason to breadboard

[@alexismandelias]

Your voice, the animated dinosaurs combined with a really weird programming language make for an oddly entertaining video

[@acuaro]

Yep, got randomly recommended this and I don't regret clicking on it.

[@jhonnythejeccer6022]

This is what i want to see when i have no idea what to do. Just perfect entertainment

[@armaganboi]

h

[@0_-]

this is the only language that you would need the insert key

[@plazmotech5969]

insert key?

[@keent]

@@plazmotech5969 INS key

[@plazmotech5969]

@@keent for what tho

[@mstefanwalker3654]

I think it changes the insert mode for typing so that you can overwrite characters as you go instead of pushing them back. Good for if you want to keep things aligned!

[@chotai]

MS-DOS (for C lang beginner) alike text editor will fit best here I guess

[@tristunalekzander5608]

You'd have an easier time soldering transistors together ffs

[@erikgustafsson9918]

this is one of those langs that you would like to get good at, but as soon as your start you realise how difficult it is

[@Hchris101]

thank you KZbin for deciding i should learn this

[@CottidaeSEA]

This is completely useless from a practical standpoint, but damn, it's fun and interesting.

[@Daniikk1012]

This can easily be turned into a puzzle game

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@Daniikk1012 That was my first thought as well.

[@IceMetalPunk]

That's what all esolangs are :)

[@GreenCappuccino]

feels like a zachtronics mechanic. reminds me of spacechem?

[@lordmarshmal_0643]

SAME BRAINCELL YAY

[@robertboran6234]

Interesting esolang.

[@vicr123]

Ooh new outro music :) EDIT: dude that attention to detail at the end with the trumpet is amazing :)

[@miskeeping]

🎺🎺🎺

[@Truttle1]

🎺🎺🎺

[@AlgyCuber]

🎺🎺🎺

[@AlgyCuber]

9:18 you switched the B and the C

[@jakerman416]

Why am I only just now finding these? This is like Conlang Critic but for programming languages.

[@claykid]

saw your gm 1.1 vid on VidLii and had to come subscribe. love this kind of content!

[@vieilatome2257]

I love your channel ! You maked me discover a lot of programming languages and your videos are fun ! :)

[@jumpsplat120]

I think youtube just figured out I love esolangs and now I'm going to watch ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS

[@jikutze7514]

I love this programming language

[@oglothenerd]

The cool thing is that you also need to worry what direction the pipe is going in, otherwise it will collide into other code!

[@Iamveryconfusedabout]

this video is amazing!

[@MrLemonsplash]

What's this ascii factorio?

[@carpedm9846]

I love it

[@typicalhog]

Ok, this is actually cool AF!

[@hansdietrich83]

Sooooo ut basically a node based language but using ascii as a UI

[@ostov-larion]

Reminds ORCA esoteric programing language for algorithmic music generation

[@TheNewton]

It might be possible to draw a donut that draws a donut with this

[@FredyHD]

I love you videos

[@komarko1646]

I and this channel are both lucky we met, so youtube is a dating site kinda

[@lonelyPorterCH]

what a great language^^

[@ratdn]

yay, another esoteric programming language!

[@rivernet62]

Are you working on a doom port?

[@NonTwinBrothers]

9:05 why are all the trumpet fingerings correct??? (Well technically incorrect unless it's played on a C trumpet)

[@RandomDucc-sj8pd]

nice

[@stephendouglas684]

Somebody needs to start an asciidots boot camp.

[@neverdie0001]

How do I write floating point numbers? Can I write "#3.2" to set a dot's value to 3.2? Or should I divide 32 by 10?

[@AttachmentStudios]

It's Confusing But Amazing... Any Other Links For Learning?

[@aaronjanse6448]

Check out github.com/aaronjanse/asciidots for installation/etc and ajanse.me/asciidots/ for documentation. Cheers!

[@imlxh7126]

Dang, this kinda reminds me of the virtual circuit simulators in Edmark Zap and Widget World. Those games kicked ass, why don't they make anything like that anymore?

[@hannahjanse8784]

Super cool!

[@zacharymarino8926]

I actually made a version of the calculator which does accept the actual symbols instead of numbers (and includes modulo)

[@bledlbledlbledl]

that reminds me a bit of some of the earlier forms of ladderlogic

[@xkarea2]

Esolangs are fun

[@elnekroxxiga]

Peculiar rendition of Birdland

[@Farzriyaz]

Fun fact: Base-15 is the best number base for the Fizzbuzz program. Sub-fun fact 1: If a number ends in 3, 6, 9, or C (for 12) in base 15, replace it with Fizz because it is divisible by 3 but not 5. Sub-fun fact 2: If a number ends in 5 or A (for 10) in base 15, replace it with Buzz because it is divisible by 5 but not 3. Sub-fun fact 3: If a number ends in 0 in base 15, replace it with FizzBuzz because it is divisible by both 3 and 5.

[@Supositwaree]

Amazing vid as Always ! ( I just realised you have 169 sub you need waay more and didint you had more sub before ? )

[@Truttle1]

J'ai pas d'idée de nom I think one person ubsubbed, since I had 170 yesterday.

[@rx80]

I fixed that now.

[@curtisnewton895]

the first 5 seconds of what you say are just incomprehensible

[@catfan5618]

What is the name of the outro song?

[@matheusd.rodrigues429]

This language seems pretty useful to teach what happens on metal. The dot being the electron

[@denyraw]

Except its not at all what happens on metal.

[@Forthro]

It may resemble hardware at the first glance, but in reality even Minecraft redstone is closer to metal, than this language.

[@graicc]

Missing an ending curly brace in the fizz buzz Java code

[@Truttle1]

No, I just indented dumbly

[@NoahtheEpicGuy]

birdland midi, nice. specifically maynard's version at least I think nevermind, you put it in the description, me stupid

[@robinpage2730]

This looks vaguely useful as an esoteric Hardware Description Language

[@exmo7]

Shit's cool

[@melody3741]

So it has no advantage over a graphical wire programming interface, But is harder to create?

[@claudenirmf]

Programming on that would be hell for me.

[@tunedwolf]

This is the only coding language that i understanded

[@SEOTADEO]

Nice! Can you show how to write a multi-threaded webserver in ascii dots?

[@noel.friedrich]

multi threading in ascii dots has another meaning you know

[@SEOTADEO]

@@noel.friedrich hahahahha you're right

[@official-obama]

you'd have to plug it into asciinet, but it'd be possible

[@MBaltz]

Very funny language!!

[@MachineMind4]

Am I stupid or did he say that with the tilde if the bottom is 0 it is forced to move up and then proceed to show a program (the truth-machine) where 0 from the bottom lets it go to the side

[@NeoAF10]

What about doing cryptography in this programming language?

[@xen4985]

if you wanna create something like this, dm me xen#2134

[@rajpriyanshu5096]

@@xen4985 let us updated.

[@koalakid3609]

how do i get the up arrow

[@official-obama]

shift+6

[@ErikUden]

I've heard about it from Aaron Janse

[@evancarpenter]

LabVIEW would like a word

[@point7266]

Okay

[@delofon]

This looks oddly familiar... *_FACTORIO_*

[@delofon]

No really, this language is wonderful. I might really end up doing cool things in it if I manage to write my own C# interpreter for it...

[@TheRojo387]

Looks like Befunge.

[@daffa_fm4583]

3:47 U & n?

[@quack3891]

I am dots, destroyer of *shuffles cards* computers

[@PasseScience]

are you agitating my dots ?

[@Kenmeth]

Weird recommendation

[@b43xoit]

Number of commands, not "amount" of commands.

[@migriv4603]

W h e r e A m. I

[@mitrasu5918]

Jesus black baby Crist...

[@fireboss05]

I think you need /\ because v^ can't orient 2 dots

[@robertosanchez236]

I thought the title said "AsciiDiots"

[@official-obama]

asciidiodes

[@RubyPiec]

Interesting

[@Beatsbasteln]

this looks useless. i like it!

[@sitrakamatthieu]

Lol a nightmare

[@auser.8013]

Hi

[@miskeeping]

hehe, 1*69* subs

[@minastaros]

Kind of non-graphic LabView

[@toreole5831]

Writing fizzbuzz might have taken an unnecessary amount of time, but it almost looks like a pixelart dog lol

[@circleubuntu]

vidlii guy subs

[@Hyreia]

This is friggin silly.

[@markmanning2921]

i feel like this video sucked out half my IQ and now im dumber which is pretty hard to do :)

[@dimitar.bogdanov]

The curly brace being on another line in Java completely triggers me for some reason. It's okay in C, C++, C# etc but Java.... why?

[@c0smo709]

Because it's java

[@dimitar.bogdanov]

@@c0smo709 You write them on the same line in Java.

[@lucien5112]

tom scott fizzbuzz solution is better

[@gallium-gonzollium]

3:42 Not exactly. You can make a program that detects if a dot is going right, if it is, keep going right, otherwise turn left. . | . - - - < - - $”Right”

[@MsMosoka]

Completely Wrong!! ^_^

[@josephcohen734]

Of all the useless languages, I think this is among the least useless

[@sekoia2812]

That infinite loop creaturey made would probably mess up anyway, since going in reverse would mess up with the printing code

[@zewzit]

right? I didn't understand how the ( ) made it work lol? Unless asciidots ignores the commands in reverse if they don't make sense? but that's still very unsafe.. if it could be read then it would do actions you don't want?