Brainfuck to RISC-V JIT compiler written in Zig
Hi everybody, this was my project to learn Zig and RISC-V+x86_64 assembly. Not sure if anybody is actually interested in yet another Brainfuck compiler, so I'll just write up some random things I learned while building it! - A primitive assembly stitching compiler is 10x faster than the interpreter. Did not expect that. - The generated x86 code is really bad (e.g. it always uses 6 or 7 byte sized instructions with 32-bit immediates when there are much smaller ones) but it doesn't really matter. Good code generated by GCC and clang for transpiled Brainfuck->C is not much faster as it's…
Brainfuck to RISC-V JIT compiler written in Zig launched on May 25, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Interactive Brainfuck compiler/interpreter/profiler/transpiler written in Zig - evelance/brainiac
Brainiac is a user-friendly and feature-rich Brainfuck runtime. It runs interactively in the terminal and includes an optimizing interpreter and native code compiler for riscv64 and x86_64. For complete files a profiler and a transpiler for C and Zig are available. It's fast, memory safe, and colorful! Brainfuck is a minimalist esoteric programming language designed to challenge and amuse programmers with its extreme simplicity yet Turing-completeness. The language consists of eight commands and an infinite memory tape. Other characters are ignored, allowing for creative code layouts and comment styling. Despite its minimalism, Brainfuck is Turing-complete, allowing it to compute any…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi everybody, this was my project to learn Zig and RISC-V+x86_64 assembly. Not sure if anybody is actually interested in yet another Brainfuck compiler, so I'll just write up some random things I learned while building it! - A primitive assembly stitching compiler is 10x faster than the interpreter. Did not expect…
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