🔥 Wildfire

"You wrote a program. It ran. Now it's ashes."

Welcome to Wildfire, an esoteric, 2D, purely ephemeral programming language. It combines the memory model of Brainfuck with the 2D grid of Befunge, and adds one terrifying twist: Every instruction you execute is instantly burned to ash (space) and can never be executed again.

Loops? Physically impossible. Intersections? The road is gone. Why did we make this? Because we hate ourselves.

🌲 Core Concept

Your source code is a 2D forest. The program counter is a Fire starting at @. As the fire moves via the wind (>, <, ^, v), it executes instructions (Trees). Once the fire steps off an instruction, that coordinate permanently becomes a blank space ( ). If the fire steps onto a blank space, it extinguishes, and the program terminates.

🌱 Plant-Driven Development (PDD) & SDGs Strict Mode

Wait, if roads disappear, how do you achieve Turing Completeness? By using the Plant (P) command. You must write programs that dynamically write new code in the ashes ahead of the fire before it reaches them.

🚨 CRITICAL: Wildfire enforces extreme Eco-Friendly execution (SDGs Strict Mode). If your program finishes executing without successfully planting (P) a new instruction at least once, the Forest Spirit will get angry and instantly kill your program with a Rule Violation error. You MUST reforest.

📜 Instruction Set

Command	Name	Action
@	Ignite	Starting point of the fire. Initial wind direction is East.
T	Big Tree	Increment the current memory cell by 1.
t	Small Tree	Decrement the current memory cell by 1.
}	Right	Move the memory pointer 1 cell to the right.
{	Left	Move the memory pointer 1 cell to the left.
>	East Wind	Change fire direction to East.
<	West Wind	Change fire direction to West.
^	North Wind	Change fire direction to North.
v	South Wind	Change fire direction to South.
.	Burn	Output the current memory cell as an ASCII character.
,	Absorb	Read one ASCII character from stdin to the current memory cell.
?	Spark (If)	If the current memory cell is 0, the fire jumps over the next cell.
P	Plant	Overwrite the cell 1 step ahead (in the current wind direction) with the ASCII character of the current memory cell.
#	Smoke	Comment. Everything after this on the same line is ignored.

🚀 Example: Welcome to "WildFire".

How do you print a simple string? You have to build a giant zigzag snake, obviously.

# This perfectly prints Welcome to "WildFire". and legally bypasses the SDGs check!
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>tttt.TTTTTTTTTTTT.tt.tttttttt.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttv
vTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt<
>TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTv
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🛠 Usage

1. Clone this repository.
2. Run the interpreter:

   python wildfire.py examples/welcome.wf

3. Watch your forest burn.

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💡 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Especially if you can figure out how to write a while loop using only P and ?. We haven't survived long enough to prove it's possible.

Good luck. Do not let the fire die.