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I feel like most things at the Esolang Wiki fit the bill. Chef, Piet, and Befunge are two favorites that spring to mind. This reminds me of Chef in particular.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

Edit: Hmm... I guess probably less usable by humans.

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Befunge yeah, anything ASCII-art-adjacent would probably be tricky. Also Pyramid Scheme: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Pyramid_Scheme

I think the space hasn't been explored fully, after all spreadsheets are a very popular two-dimensional programming language

There have been benchmarks already done on esolangs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09678.

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