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by Krei-se 596 days ago
Brainfuck is turing complete, why would we worry about any other structure preserving compilers? Brainfuck will do just fine /s

CT is outside most problem domains in computation, as its outside the time and space constraints of a machine. Knowing whether a program will never finish is part of CT for software developers. So handling this case is a maybe in CT while it's a must in software (running endlessly means crashing).