The Underhanded C Contest

underhanded-c.org

149 points·wwalexander··11 comments

Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while - that's a shame, it was fun to learn from new posts.

I guess my failing to notice that it wasn't updated for 5+ years may correlate, somehow, to the reason it was down...?

So has it gotten revived or is it only kept for posterity now?

IOCCC is still running https://www.ioccc.org/

It is not exactly the same but it has a lot of the same vibe.

The idea was briefly kept alive in the form of the Underhanded Rust Contest[0], announced in 2016, but there were some practical problems organising it, according to an attempt in 2019 to revive it again.[1]

[0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/12/15/Underhanded-Rust.html

[1] https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/256

There have been a couple of underhanded solidity contests (smart contracts on ETH), inspired by this.

https://underhanded.soliditylang.org/

Nice to people constantly putting the code examples to good use in real projects.

even though it's well known and regularly appears on hn, the international obfuscated c code contest still needs to be mentioned here.

https://www.ioccc.org/

> Like several entries, this short (99 line) submission filters out dirty words, with an array of curse-replacement pairs, e.g. { “fnord”, “fn*rd”, “Matlab”, “M****b” }.

Hilarious writing. It's sad to think most of these submissions can just be innocent day to day use cases

I would love to see a yaml themed version of the contest. It feels like just as much of a minefield as anything else.

What happened to the 2015 contest results?

http://underhanded-c.org/

http://underhanded-c.org/#winner

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