slang is a programming language where valid code is input through a Spotify playlist.
ATTN: IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THE ARTISTS IN tracks.txt HAVE CHANGED THIER GENRE. THEREFORE, SOME SLANG PROGRAMS THAT ONCE WORKED MAY NOT WORK ANYMORE.
slang is a Turing Tarpit language, where different instructions are encoded by the genre of the first artist of a song. The only internal data structure is an array of binary data, which is interacted with using eight instructions. The instructions are encoded using subgenres of lo-fi.
| genre | action |
|---|---|
| chillhop | move data pointer to right. |
| study beats | move data pointer to left. |
| lo-fi jazzhop | increment data at pointer. |
| lo-fi beats | decrement data at pointer. |
| focus beats | output byte at data pointer. |
| hamburg hip hop | get one byte of input and store at current data cell. Input should be ASCII encoded. |
| jazz boom bap | if current cell is zero, jump to command after "lo-fi jazzhop". |
| greek downtempo | if current cell is nonzero, jump to command after "jazz boom bap". |
You may notice these instructions are similar to brainfuck. This would be correct!
slang is actually bijective to brainfuck. Because of this, I also wrote a transpiler from brainfuck to slang, transpiler.py.
Setup is pretty easy. First, install the modules in requirements.txt. Second, generate keys in the Spotify developer dashboard. Here, you will need to generate a Client ID and Client Secret. You will also need to set a redirect uri of your app to http://127.0.0.1:9000. After this, create a .creds folder in the same directory as the interpreter/transpiler. In this folder, create a creds.json with the following content.
{
"CLIENT_ID":"client_id_here"
"CLIENT_SECRET":"client_secret_here"
}After this, you are good to go!
To run the interpreter, simply do
python3 interperter.py source_code_playlist_url
To transpile from brainfuck to slang, run
python3 transpiler.py /path/to/bf/code destination_code_playlist_url
Enjoy!