BrainASM

Not to be confused with Brainasm

BrainASM(BASM)

Designed by	User:Mishyakovskiy
Appeared in	2026
Memory system	Cell-based
Computational class	Unknown
Reference implementation	Brainfuck
Influenced by	Brainfuck, Assembler

BrainASM is an esoteric interpreted language, written in Lua and created by Mishyakovskiy

Language overview

The language contains 10 cells, controlled by pointer(1-10). It moves between them and commits changes to variable it points. From the start, all of them are '0' and pointer starts from 1. Every instruction in this language should be written from new line, otherwise it brings unexpected behavior and wrong calculations.

In graphic, it looks like this:

0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10
^
|
p

Etymology

BrainASM is a combination of two languages' names: Brainfuck and Assembler due to similarity of these both languages in BrainASM.

Instructions and functions

The current list of instructions in BrainASM is:

Instruction	Description
p+	Moves pointer forward by adding 1.
p-	Moves pointer backward by subtracting 1.
: (number)	Sets current variable to number value.
; (string)	Sets current variable to string.
# (destination)	Copies current variable's value to destination variable.
@	Commentary, interpreter ignores it.
> (source)	Gets source variable's value. Should be written along with some instruction in one line.
!	Halts execution
fc	Special instruction, stands for "function call". Once ran, it calls a function from function table. Uses first variable as position of function(starting from 1), and next three variables as arguments for called function (more information in "Function calls").
ib (number)	If-statement. Stands for "if bigger than...". Returns true if current variable is bigger than number, or else returns false.
il (number)	If-statement. Stands for "if less than...". Returns true if current variable is less than number, or else returns false.
iq (number)	If-statement. Stands for "if equals to...". Returns true if current variable equals to number, or else returns false.
stre (string)	If-statement. Stands for "if string equals to...". Returns true if current variable equals to string, or else returns false.
nstre (string)	If-statement. Stands for "if string doesn't equals to...". Returns true if current variable doesn't equals to string, or else returns false.
ei	Stands for "end if". Ends if-statement's body.

Function calls

Function calls are special functions, stored in func_calls table in interpreter source code. Their main feature is to support much more complex instructions and be flexible.

For arguments, they use 2, 3 and 4 variables.

Currently, there is three main function calls:

Number	Function	Arguments	Description
1	print()	(var)	Prints var's value.
2	input()	nil	Takes digit input from user and writes to variable 5.
3	strin()	nil	Takes string input from user and writes to variable 5.

Examples

Hello world!

: 1
p+
: 3
p+
; 'Hello World!
fc

A+B problem

: 2
fc
p+
: > 5
# 7
fc
: > 5
# 8
: 7
p-
: 1
p+
p+
p+
p+
p+
p+
+ > 8
fc

Calculator

@ Calculator

: 2
p+
p+
p+
p+
@ 5

fc
# 7
fc
# 8
: 3
# 1
fc
# 9
: 1
# 1
: 7
# 2
p+
p+
p+
p+

stre '+
p-
p-
+ > 8
fc
!
ei
stre '-
p-
p-
- > 8
fc
!
ei
stre '*
p-
p-
* > 8
fc
!
ei
stre '/
p-
p-
/ > 8
fc
!
ei

See also

Brainfuck

External resources

GitHub source code