Because They Can!

Why?

Open source projects make you ask that question, or gasp

• Wait, what?,
• OMG!,
• That's insane!,
• etc.

They can be awesome or terribly horrendous ideas to do whatever they are trying to do.

This list is published under the CC0.

The List

Python

• quasiquotes: "I'd just like to interject for a moment..." by Joe Jevnik under the GPLv2

  >>> from quasiquotes.c import c
  >>> def f(a):
  ...     with $c:
  ...         printf("%ld\n", PyLong_AsLong(a));
  ...         a = Py_None;
  ...         Py_INCREF(a);
  ...     return a
  ...
  >>> f(0), f(1)
  (0, 1)

You can goto hell

• goto for Python by Richie Hindle under the Python Software Foundation license [Python 2.3+] {Linux, Windows}

• python-goto by Sebastian Noack under Unlicense [Python 2.6–3.6, PyPy]

  from goto import with_goto
  
  @with_goto
  def foobar(start, stop):
  
      # do something
      if is_borked():
          goto .cleanup
  
      # do something else
  
      label .cleanup
      # cleaning up

Shell

Vim

• Athame: true Vim for shells by James Kolb under GPLv3 (GIF) [C] {Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL), readline {Bash, GDB, Python, ...}, Zsh}

Terminal Games

In Awk

Awk-My-God!

• awkaster: pseudo 3D shooter game using raycasting by Fedor Kalugin under MIT (YouTube)

  

In sed

Yes, some cra-sed people write games in sed.

• Gravity Defied clone by Vladimir Turov under MIT (YouTube, asciinema)
• sfb: Flappy Bird clone by Valeriy Kireev under MIT (YouTube)
• sed-snake by Chizhong Jin under BSD (YouTube)
• Sedtris by Julia Jomantaite and Aurelio Marinho Jargas under Poetic License (YouTube)
• SedArkanoid by Aurelio Marinho Jargas under GPLv2 (YouTube)
• SedSokoban by Aurelio Marinho Jargas under GPLv2 (YouTube)

Uncategorized

• bucklespring: Nostalgia bucklespring IBM Model-M keyboard sound by Ico Doornekamp under GPLv2 (YouTube) [C, OpenAL] {Linux, macOS}
• ratterplatter: Don't you miss your hard disk? by Peter Hofmann under MIT (YouTube) [C, libao, opusfile, /proc/diskstats] {Linux}