The worst Lua "Hello World" you'll ever see
As a continuation of my Lua abomination series, the below code is surely one of the most indecipherable versions of print 'Hello World' that you're likely to see.
_={_=_G}for--[[]]__--[[]]in(next),_["_"]do(_)[_]=(__)_[#_[_]],_[_[_]:byte(-#"#"
)+#_[_]-(#{}+#"(#''"*#"*#*#*"*#"_[_[]]")]=_[_],_[_]end(_)[_]=_._[_[#""]]{[_._[_
[#""]]]=_}_[""]=_._[_._[_[#[=[=#=]=]*-((#[=[#[=]#]=]))]](_._[_[-#[[_[-#[#_[_]]]
](_))]_[";"]=_._[_[#"#"+(#")#^")^#"#^"]]_["'"]=[[sub]]_['"']=_[""][_["'"]]_["/"
]=[[/_)=.,[#"('*:^;+]]_["'"]=_[""][_['"'](_[-#[[=[=]=]]],-#",_",-#"..").._["'"]
]_["["]=_['"'](_[-#"#-]_"],#",",#{_}).._['"'](_[-#"-"],#",",#"#").._['"'](_[-(#
"^#^")^#"^#"],#"-",#"(").._['"'](_[#_[-#"#"]*-#"[#"],#_[-#"#"],#_[-#"#"]).._[''
..'"'](_[-#[[=[]=]]],#_["/"]/#_["/"],#"/").._['"'](_[-(#"#)-")^#[[""]]],-#"-,",
-#[=[[]]=])_["]"]=_['"'](_[-#_[-#"-"]],#",",#"#").._[";"](_["["]..[=[('\]=]..(#
'#).'*#',..]]'*#'",#"#",'-#'(').."')")().._['"'](_[-#_[-#"-"]],-#_[-#"-"]-#"-",
-#_[-#"-"])_['_']=_[";"](_["["]..'(_[""].'.._[";"](_["["]..[[('\]]..((#_["/"]+#
"'")*#"#*("*#"..").."')")().._['"'](_[#_[-#"_"]*#"[_"],-#"#-,",-#"(,").._['"'](
_[-#_["/"]],-#",",-#"(")..'(_["/"],...,#"#","")-#"#")')_[";"](_["'"](_["'"]([[]
#/#)[([;#.))."[,[:[:[+)/,#[+#)[:[.)))^)^#/#)[([;#.))."[,[:[:[+)/,#[+#)[:[.)))^]
]],"[^".._["/"].."]",""),"(.)(.)",_[";"]("_['.'],_['#']=...".._["["].."(_['']."
.._["]"].."(_['_'](...)*#_['/']+_['_'](_['#'])))")))(...)_={#{...},#{#{}},#"#"}
(If you don't believe me, it does print Hello World).
The aim was to use as few alphanumeric characters as possible, and I think I did fairly well - you've only got "G", "for", "in", "next", "do", "byte", "end", and "sub". For a language which typically is full of alphanumeric characters, I consider it quite impressive. As an added bonus, there is also no whitespace.
Only about half a line of the code is an encoding of "print'Hello World'" - the other lines just perform generic decoding. That's right; not only this is an obscene obfuscation, it's also an easily reusable obfuscation.