# elonlit/Genesis

God's actual programming language.

Repository: https://github.com/elonlit/Genesis
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/elonlit-genesis
Homepage: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Genesis
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: bible, hebrew, procedural-programming, interpreter
Last push: 2022-08-20T22:23:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1628, "days_push": 1474, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1202, forks 19 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.385584+00:00)

## What it is
Genesis is an interpreted, procedural, Turing-complete esoteric programming language whose keywords are written in Paleo-Hebrew characters, implemented in Java. It supports variables, control flow, subroutines, data structures, and a math library, with Java-style operators but right-to-left associativity.

## Use cases
- write programs in an esoteric Paleo-Hebrew language
- run Genesis (.𐤁) scripts with an interpreter
- explore esolang design and Turing-complete toy languages
- study interpreter implementation in Java
- teach or demo procedural language concepts with a novelty language

## When to choose
- you want to experiment with or write code in an esoteric Hebrew-script language
- you need a reference implementation of the Genesis esolang
- you are studying how interpreters for small procedural languages are built

## When to avoid
- you need a practical language for real software development
- you require strong typing, large ecosystems, or tooling
- you cannot input or display Paleo-Hebrew Unicode characters

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: interpreter, programming-language, parser
- domain: programming-languages, parsers, education
- platform: cross-platform, jvm, windows
- tags: esolang, esoteric-programming-language, paleo-hebrew, turing-complete, java, novelty-language, interpreter, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- elonlit/Genesis (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.385584+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:33:22.064354+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/elonlit/Genesis (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.385584+00:00, sha 182d0d921b1a)
  - homepage: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Genesis (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:36.895343+00:00, sha 4ff099db93f2)
  - site_page: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esolang:About (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:36.904885+00:00, sha b9a44bee5c25)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.