Unjoyous 2048

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  Playing 2048 in the terminal

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  Lots of magic invocations

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  segfault (built-in type casting with the type defined as a magic number)

Inspiration

We looked up weird obscure functional programming languages from around Y2K and found Joy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

What it does

Lets you play 2048 in your terminal, implemented with Joy.

How we built it

Whiteboard algorithm design & trial and error.

Challenges we ran into

• Lack of variables - can only use a single stack.
• Lack of documentation - some being incorrect.
• No syntax highlighting or vscode support (or support in general)
• Finding a working implementation of Joy and getting it running - had to use Docker
• Defining a function in the repl resets your stack's memory
• Unhelpful error messages (just gives you the keyword with the issue, not where in the code it is)
• Hard to debug
• User input with stdin doesn't work when running the joy file directly, you have to load in the commands manually

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Got our heads around a weird programming language.

What we learned

It's easier to use assembly

What's next for Unjoyous 2048

archival of joy version and port it to assembly

Built With

• joy