"In Windows, folders are an even more extreme measure of emptiness: they take up no disk space at all. For proof, create 352,449 folders and get properties on it."<p>I'm guessing this is a joke and I'm just taking it too seriously, but the only thing that "proves" is that Windows lies to you lol. It's obviously information that's stored _somewhere_.
I can't decide if I'm in awe, or angry.<p>At least it looks more useful than the flying Tesla.
> The names of the folders are ignored<p>Oh good, cuz naming things is hard!
This is so nuts and pointless... I love it!<p>The kind of thing no AI would ever come up with :)
This is the most truly "WTF is wrong with you" esolang I've ever seen. When I got down to the syntax I imagined the amount of effort it would take to write a single statement and viscerally recoiled.
If you enjoy that, allow me to introduce you to the displeasure of WORST and Malbolge.<p><a href="https://esolangs.org/wiki/WORST" rel="nofollow">https://esolangs.org/wiki/WORST</a>
<a href="https://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge" rel="nofollow">https://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge</a><p>They’re both a truly bottomless pit of malaise.
Oh, I remember that one from a CTF couple of years ago. Absolutely hilarious!
This is...beautiful.
Reading the title I immediately thought of rust
This idea is so good, though
s/directories/folders !
absolutely unhinged, i love it
Yes, file system metadata takes space. This is so incredibly inefficient.
noice!
My first impression: beautiful and impressive.
I just mentioned it to Claude and it minus-one shotted (that's when you didn't even want to make anything, just talk about it) a Python script it called Folderol that compiles .fol scripts into folder structures, and it absolutely works. But I can't thank it yet or take it up on the offers on how to follow this up, because that one response put it over from 0% to 90% of the 5-hour usage limit. I'm sure someone with some credits to spend could make this baby <i>sing</i>.<p>Just think of the applications! No seriously, can you please think of any applications and tell me?<p>What are cool things that can contain other things, other than folders? One thing I could think of is hypertext documents, the number of links in them could be the number of folders, and bam, you can now put complex program on the web that take up no space. And rogue agents also have a whole new way to fuck with us, too: while you try to make sense of these weird files they put into these weird folder structures, it's <i>only</i> about the folder structure. Not meaingless data, but active code. Watching. Evolving.<p>Another one is RAM compression, of course. You need some sort of JIT-compiler for the folder code -- which take up no space! -- but then you could make folder programs to store arbitrary data, and store the folder programs <i>in</i> RAM, using no RAM. And why shouldn't those strings themselves be .fol code that compiles to a zero footprint folder structure, right? and so on... yeah, I think you probably get it now.
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