Internet Community
There is a small but thriving community on the Internet of hobbyists who program in and design esoteric programming languages.
The esolang community is active sporadically, and topics of discussion range from debate as to whether a language is Turing-complete to how one would go about representing abstract and hard to visualise mathematical concepts in a programming environment. There is a mailing list, but it is nearly abandoned and most discussion happens on the wiki (see below) or on IRC.
Turing completeness is a favorite topic of discussion, since it is not immediately obvious whether or not a language is Turing complete, and it often takes rather large intuitive leaps to come to a solution. New languages with new features are always being created, so proof of Turing completeness is always a challenge.
A related pursuit among programming language enthusiasts is the writing of obfuscated code.
Read more about this topic: Esoteric Programming Language
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