Code golf is a competition to reduce the size of program source code as much as possible.
20190731/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
Now, this poses some interesting ideas for a bootstrap operating system. What if all the early bootstrap system code was written in a code golf programming language? That would, most importantly, reduce the number of keystrokes for the initial type-in program, which has obvious benefits for this particular purpose, namely reducing human error that is proportional to the number of keys typed.
But, being that code golf programming languages are regarded as unnecessary esoteric, I guess that would mean that I would have to stick to the traditional ideas that I was developing for the sake of creating a bootstrap operating system that is consistent with modern cultural assumptions.
On the other hand, if the goal is to get as large of a program into as small an amount of memory as possible, compiling code to a “code golf” programming language, then running an interpreter on the code golf language code could be a pretty slick way to further compress your program code in-memory than is possible with machine-style byte code. I’m going to have to look into that.