Shortest infinite loop producing no output

Question

Your task is to create the shortest infinite loop!

The point of this challenge is to create an infinite loop producing no output, unlike its possible duplicate. The reason to this is because the code might be shorter if no output is given.

Rules

• Each submission must be a full program.
• You must create the shortest infinite loop.
• Even if your program runs out of memory eventually, it is still accepted as long as it is running the whole time from the start to when it runs out of memory. Also when it runs out of memory, it should still not print anything to STDERR.
• The program must take no input (however, reading from a file is allowed), and should not print anything to STDOUT. Output to a file is also forbidden.
• The program must not write anything to STDERR.
• Feel free to use a language (or language version) even if it's newer than this challenge. -Note that there must be an interpreter so the submission can be tested. It is allowed (and even encouraged) to write this interpreter yourself for a previously unimplemented language. :D
• Submissions are scored in bytes, in an appropriate (pre-existing) encoding, usually (but not necessarily) UTF-8. Some languages, like Folders, are a bit tricky to score - if in doubt, please ask on Meta.
• This is not about finding the language with the shortest infinite loop program. This is about finding the shortest infinite loop program in every language. Therefore, I will not accept an answer.
• If your language of choice is a trivial variant of another (potentially more popular) language which already has an answer (think BASIC or SQL dialects, Unix shells or trivial Brainf**k-derivatives like Alphuck), consider adding a note to the existing answer that the same or a very similar solution is also the shortest in the other language.
  
• There should be a website such as Wikipedia, Esolangs, or GitHub for the language. For example, if the language is CJam, then one could link to the site in the header like #[CJam](http://sourceforge.net/p/cjam/wiki/Home/), X bytes.
• Standard loopholes are not allowed.

(I have taken some of these rules from Martin Büttner's "Hello World" challenge)

Please feel free to post in the comments to tell me how this challenge could be improved.

Catalogue

This is a Stack Snippet which generates both an alphabetical catalogue of the used languages, and an overall leaderboard. To make sure your answer shows up, please start it with this Markdown header:

# Language name, X bytes

Obviously replacing Language name and X bytes with the proper items. If you want to link to the languages' website, use this template, as posted above:

#[Language name](http://link.to/the/language), X bytes

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Answer 1

Duocentehexaquinquagesimal, 2 bytes

2º

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Answer 2

ABC, 2 bytes

al

l is the actual infinite loop, a is just a placeholder to increment the accumulator at each iteration.

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Answer 3

CSASM v2.4.0.2, 26 bytes

func main:
.lbl a
br a
ret
end

Endlessly jumps execution back to the label a, which just refers to the br instruction itself.
The ret instruction and end token are needed for the function to compile.

Answer 4

Splinter, 5 bytes

A{A}A

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Interpreter crasher. Defines A as itself, then calls A, with infinite recursion.

Answer 5

MMIXAL, 10 bytes

Main JMP @

Assembly language. Has jump-to-self. Done. (This compiles down to four bytes of actual code, F0000000.)

Answer 6

Dis, 0 bytes.

Yes, a blank program:

How it works

• The Dis language accepts an empty program.
• Begins with c=0.
• mem[i]=0 for each i, so every cells stand for NOP.
• Unlike Malbolge, the Dis language does never modify the program by default.
• This goes forever.

Since TIO doesn't have Dis by native, I made the interpreter. Try it online!

Answer 7

yuno, 2 bytes

1¿

This will freeze your browser window so I took the TIO link out.

 ¿    While
1     1
      (1)

The 1-byter ɫ (call this link) dies to recursion which unfortunately outputs to STDERR. I might add a flag to disable that in the future.

This will keep applying 1 to 1 until 1 is not true and then print the result after infinite time. Hopefully that's acceptable. If not, you can add the d flag to disable implicit output, or do 1¿ɳ“” - evaluate 1¿, then take ignore that and take the right argument to ɳ, which is “”, an empty string.

Answer 8

Mascarpone, 8 bytes

[:!]v*:!
[  ]v*   // define and push a new operation
 :!   :! // duplicate and execute the operation on the stack

Answer 9

Maze, 7 Bytes

^^
%R%L

Maze is a 2D language where cars navigate through a maze and execute instructions in cells they visit. This code starts a car ^^, which by default moves downwards. The next instruction redirects the car to the right %R. That lands on a cell that redirects the car to the left %L, creating an infinite loop.

Answer 10

Binary Pi Calculus, 6 bytes

0x73 0xB8 0x1B 0xDB 0xB0 0x00

Unfortunately, I could find no existing BPC interpreter. If one does exist, please let me know.

Explanation

0x73     0xB8     0x1B     0xDB     0xB0     0x00
01110011 10111000 00011011 11011011 10110000 00000000
01110011101110000001101111011011101100000 0000000
011                                       Run the following two processes in parallel
   100    1110                            Write the free variable 0...
      1110                                ...to the free channel 0
              000                         End first process
                 001                      Run the following on an infinite number of threads:
                    1011110               Read from the free channel 0 to the bound variable 0
                           110    1100    Write the bound variable 0...
                              1110        ...to the free channel 0
                                      000 End second process

The corresponding pi-calculus program is

a<a>|!a(a).a<a>

Reads and writes are blocking, so each thread will be executed sequentially. As there are an infinite number of them, the program will therefore never halt.

Answer 11

ErrLess, 0 bytes

An empty program in ErrLess is an infinite loop! This is because if the IP reaches the end of the program it loops back to the start, so programs have to be explicitly halted using ..

ErrLess is a stack-based language I made for fun over the last few months. You can read the docs here, and I also started a tutorial.

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Answer 12

Exceptionally, 1 byte

=

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All programs in Exceptionally run as infinite loops. (Unfortunately, the empty program exits immediately instead of looping.) All we need is a no-op to execute each time.

Here, we're using =, which (given no arguments) asserts that the register is equal to itself. In fact, any of the characters +-*^=IF{}! should work. Several others (&UDSW) would also work, except that they will eventually run out of memory and print something to stderr.

Answer 13

makina, 2 bytes

><

That's it, that's the program.

Answer 14

Fig, \$\log_{256}(96)\approx\$ 0.823 bytes

(

Beats all y'alls' one-byters mwahahaha

Answer 15

Rattle, 3 bytes

[]0

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Answer 16

TacO, 2 bytes

@"

TacO sees the source code as an infinite plane. When it encounters a ", it searches forever for the matching quote, idling forever. @ is required as a program root.

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Answer 17

Arturo, 9 bytes

whileø[]

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This also works and is the same length:

f:$[][f]f

Answer 18

Thunno, 1 byte

Actually \$ 1 \log_{256}(96) \approx \$ 0.82 bytes but the leaderboard doesn't take decimals.

[

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Just a simple infinite loop.

Answer 19

Swift, 12 bytes

while true{}

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Answer 20

Grass, 3 bytes

wWw

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Essentially just a main function that calls itself recursively.

Answer 21

(,) 8 Chars or 1.585 Bytes

(,,,,())

Answer 22

Desmoslang Assembly, 0 Bytes

It's an infinite loop no matter what (at least until I implement a halt instruction (which I might not even do))

Answer 23

HPPPL, 16 bytes

while 0=0 do end

Answer 24

C++ Template Meta-Programming, 48 bytes

template<int n>class S{enum{v=S<n-1>::v}}S<1>::v

There is an infinite loop in the template, so this doesn't compile. Other stuff that doesn't compile, but doesn't need to for the template to recurse (S being private, S<1>::v being free floating)

Can be run at http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/ for error g++: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault

g++ -std=c++14 -O2 -Wall -pedantic -pthread -ftemplate-depth=162345 main.cpp && ./a.out

Answer 25

Univar, 8 bytes

($,,)$,,

Self-calling function.

Answer 26

x86 Machine code, 2 bytes

Machine Code

     00 01
0000 73 FE

Asm source

[SECTION .text]
[bits 16]
[org 0x100]

EntryPoint:
    jnc     EntryPoint

Both the jmp and the call instructions use a 1 byte op-code followed by a 2 byte absolute offset. Conditional jumps on the other hand, are limited to a destination within [+127, -128] bytes of the branch. This is because they are encoded with a 1 byte op-code and a 1 byte relative offset. Dos already cleared the flags before invoking our program, so we know the carry flag will be clear and facilitate an endless (non-crashing) loop. We wont run out of stack-space, which would result in a stack-overflow error, or overwriting and ultimately crashing, our program. Approaches using call will suffer this after about 32,638 iterations. (stack is initally 0xFFFE, (3 byte) program begins at 0x100, each iteration decrements the SP by 2.)

Answer 27

ROOP, 1 byte

1

At the beginning, the number 1 is converted to an object that contains the number. As there is no operator and the object has nowhere to move, it always happens the same: nothing. The program does not end because there is an existing object.

Answer 28

Befalse, 7 bytes

A two dimensional language.

Extremely straightforward; the ! unconditionally skips the next instruction and the / and \ reflect intuitively.

!/\
 \/

Answer 29

Etre, 2 bytes

()

The program sets the first cell to 1, then loops while it isn't zero.

Answer 30

Skull, 8 bytes

for(;;);

Uses a bug in the Skull2C transpiler, where unrecognized expressions are converted directly into C.