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.

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