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That * better be a wildcard covering several programming languages with similar names to brainfuck that I'm unaware of
It's not exactly hard. It's really simple. It's just shit to use.
The only language I tried to learn that I actually thought was hard in and of itself was Ruby. Fuck Ruby.
What's hard about vanilla Ruby?
Well, it is 9 mohs
If you think bf is hard you should look at malbolge. The bf operators at least make sense, it's just difficult to use them productively. Malbolge literally was a "hold my beer" moment compared to bf.
Most* sane* programming languages are easy to