Language Categories

There are categories of languages. Categories are mainly based on https://esolangs.org/wiki/Category:Languages

Paradigm

Functional Paradigm

Practical

Including multi-paradigm languages.

• Common Lisp(SBCL)
• Egison
• Elixir
• Erlang
• Haskell
• OCaml
• Racket
• Coq
• F#
• Scala

Esoteric

• Function
• Functional()
• Grass
• Husk
• Jelly
• Lazy K
• Nuts
• Rail
• Unlambda
• ‫قلب

Derivatives

Brainfuck derivatives

• Brainfuck(BFI)
• Brainfuck(esomer)
• Brainfuck(esotope)
• braintwist
• cyclicbrainfuck

Befunge derivatives

• Befunge-93
• Befunge-98
• emojifunge
• Picfunge

Characteristics

Two-dimensional languages

• Aheui
• Alice
• AsciiDots
• Befunge
• Cardinal
• Cubix
• Function
• Hexagony
• Labyrinth
• Piet
• Rail
• ><>

Golfing languages

• 05AB1E
• CJam
• Element
• golfscript
• gs2
• golfish
• Husk
• Japt
• Jelly
• MATL

Stack-Based

• 05AB1E
• Aheui
• Alice
• Backhand
• Befunge
• CJam
• COBOL
• Cubix
• Element
• Floater
• Fugue
• Glass
• gs2
• Labyrinth
• MATL
• Pxem
• Rail
• Shakespeare
• Stuck
• Starry
• Whitespace
• ><>

Operating Strings // TODO

• ed
• sed
• Make
• MAO
• Vim
• wake

Practical languages

Relatively popular

• C(GCC)
• C#(.NET Core)
• C#(Mono)
• C++(Clang)
• Crystal
• Go
• Java
• JavaScript(Rhino)
• Node.js
• Perl
• Perl 1.0
• Perl 6
• Python 1
• Python 2
• Python 3
• Ruby 0.49
• Ruby 1.8
• Ruby 3.2.2
• Ruby trunk
• Rust
• Swift

relatively minor

• Ada(GNU GNAT)
• APL
• awk
• bash(Busybox)
• bash(Pure)
• BiBTeX
• cmd.exe
• COBOL
• Common LISP(SBCL)
• Coq
• Egison
• Elixir
• Erlang
• F#(.NET Core)
• FFmpeg
• Fortran 2018
• gnuplot
• Haskell
• Intel 4004 Assembly
• jq
• Kotlin
• Lua
• Make
• Nim
• OCaml
• Octave
• Powershell
• R
• Racket
• TeX(Plain)
• sed
• SQLite
• Vim
• x86 Assembly
• XSLT
• Zig
• Zsh(Pure)

Designer

Made by TSGer

• Bots (by satos---jp)
• CodeMania (by Tiramister)
• copos (by n4o847)
• ExchangeIF (by fiord)
• Floating (by KPCCoiL)
• golfish (by n4o847)
• Hanoi_Stack (by JP3BGY)
• Iwashi (by Yosshi999)
• moo (by moratorium08)
• multi-reader (by kuromunori)
• PicFunge (by Liesegang)
• reversed-c (by cookie-s)
• Unicue (by hakatashi)
• (?i:standback) (by akouryy)

Made by KMCer //TODO

• Apache mod_rewrite (as an esolang)
• arithmetic (by toyukan6)
• bed (by hatsusato)
• braintwist (by nakario)
• BubbleSortLanguage (by lv100tomato)
• ClassicMusicTheoryForProgrammer (by lv100tomato)
• cyclicbrainfuck (by hiromimi)
• Emojifunge (by ten986)
• mines (by dnek)
• Tetris (by siotouto)
• TSP (by nakario)