SIC-1

The concept of OISC is not new to me; in fact, having recently played "A=B", I've seen how far to the extreme it can be taken (in that case, only assignments were used). So, at least in this aspect, the game only surprised me to a certain extent, even though subleq is a very fun and expressive "language." What really amazed me is that this is the first assembly programming game where there is actually a (virtual) RAM. Usually, in this genre, you're limited to working with a series of registers, or at most, in some levels, they implement an array/stack/queue that acts as a data collection, but it's always something external to the language's architecture. Here, instead, you have 255 bytes to work with, and above all, when you compile the code, it gets allocated in the RAM alongside the data. And this is normal because instructions and data are virtually identical; it's only the logic of the program that allows us to distinguish them, but we tend to forget this, made lazy by high-level languages. It is fascinating that you can therefore write instructions that go write into the bytes of other instructions—self-modifying/self-generating code. And it's not a secondary trick for crazy…

This is the programing equivalent of smashing a rock against a wall over and over again and hoping the shards make a fortress and I love it, 10/10

Well, it’s free so might as well try it yourself, but to me writing every program with subleq (subtract and branch if less than or equal) doesn’t seem that interesting and there are other things I’d rather be doing. subleq is kind of like the nand gate of assembly instructions and just because you can do anything with it doesn’t mean you want to have to do everything that way.

True esolang right here

subleq @programmer, @programmer

Absolutely brain-bending to start with, it's a really interesting challenge to figure out how to do simple things with such an esoteric instruction. It get kind of tedious later on though when the puzzles get more complicated and you have to keep reimplementing the basics in order to use them in your later solutions.