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Lots of readers have shared their implementations from the Ray Tracing In One Weekend series. Feel free to add your own!

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

C# -- https://github.com/ronnieholm/Ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-CSharp
F# -- https://github.com/ronnieholm/Ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-FSharp
C -- https://github.com/Morozov-5F/raytracing-weekend
C++ -- https://github.com/define-private-public/PSRayTracing, https://github.com/LiuZengqiang/RayTracingInOneWeekend
C++ (modules) -- https://github.com/ObjectOnlyProgramming/Raytracing
Clojure -- https://github.com/Clojure2D/clojure2d-examples/tree/master/src/rt_in_weekend, https://github.com/Clojure2D/clojure2d-examples/tree/master/src/rt4/in_one_weekend (second approach)
Common Lisp -- https://github.com/jstoddard/rtiow
Cuda -- https://github.com/rogerallen/raytracinginoneweekendincuda (blog post: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/accelerated-ray-tracing-cuda/), https://github.com/D-K-E/cuda-raytracer, https://github.com/LiuZengqiang/RayTracingInOneWeekendCUDA, https://github.com/jilinzheng/RaytracingInCUDA
Go -- https://github.com/i-am-g2/Tr, https://github.com/DanielPettersson/solstrale, https://github.com/kris-gaudel/go-tracer
Java -- https://github.com/aryanbatras/JavaReflect-3D-Engine [With Live Interactive Mode], https://github.com/2149495141/RayTracingInJava
Julia -- https://github.com/claforte/RayTracingWeekend.jl
Julia -- https://github.com/lawless-m/ShirleyRenderer.jl - competitive with C++ version, also supports multi-threads
Kotlin -- https://github.com/time4tea/raytrace-in-a-weekend-kotlin
OCaml -- https://github.com/LesleyLai/ocamlpt, https://github.com/MisakaCenter/RayTracer.ml
OpenCL -- https://github.com/D-K-E/opencl-raytracer-oneweekend
Metal -- https://github.com/eoinroe/MTLRaytracing
Python with numpy -- https://github.com/alfiopuglisi/raytrace_weekend_numpy (jupyter notebook: https://github.com/alfiopuglisi/raytrace_weekend_numpy/blob/master/raytrace_weekend_numpy.ipynb)
Python with CuPy/CUDA -- https://github.com/eshibusawa/CuPy-RayTracing (jupyter notebook: https://github.com/eshibusawa/CuPy-RayTracing/blob/main/Python/main.ipynb)
Python -- https://github.com/gkmngrgn/rayt/tree/master/rayt-python, https://github.com/miguelvc6/torch-tracing
Rayground -- https://www.rayground.com/view/2hucHmtxldY
Ruby -- https://github.com/Tarptaeya/path_tracer
Rust -- https://GitHub.com/peteralieber/rustrays, https://github.com/Nelarius/weekend-raytracer-rust, https://github.com/gkmngrgn/rayt/tree/master/rayt-rust, https://github.com/akinnane/RayTracingInOneWeekend, https://github.com/viktorku/wort, https://github.com/POMMI3R/dasom-rs, https://github.com/navierr/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-rs, https://github.com/nico-abram/rtweekend-rs, https://github.com/heyajulia/raytracer, https://github.com/anjinl/rust_one_weekend, https://github.com/garethkcjones/rays, https://github.com/misterdanb/raytracinginrust (+ book), https://github.com/aganders3/wasm-ray, https://github.com/nya3jp/raytracing, https://github.com/NonL4331/Raytracing-Rust, https://github.com/jk-gan/ray-tracer/tree/book1, https://github.com/NicolasGuillaumeSoulie/AnotherRustRayTracingInOneWeekend.git, https://https://github.com/mcallahan/lightray, https://github.com/Srikrishna31/raytracing, https://github.com/armansito/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend, https://github.com/typedrat/rayromano/tree/in-one-weekend, https://github.com/aarestad/ray-tracing-rs
Scala -- https://github.com/Marantesss/ray-tracing-scala
Slang -- https://github.com/cacti9/Ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-Slang-Vulkan
SYCL -- https://www.codeplay.com/portal/blogs/2020/05/19/ray-tracing-in-a-weekend-with-sycl-basic-sphere-tracing.html
TypeScript -- https://github.com/ahuth/raytrace2, https://github.com/noiron/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-typescript
Zig -- https://github.com/Nelarius/weekend-raytracer-zig, https://github.com/Cloudssss/raytracing_in_one_weekend_zig, https://github.com/jlucier/rayz
Javascript -- https://github.com/gurpreetsingh-exe/raytracer, https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/six_hour_raytracer (with live demo on https://marquisdegeek.github.io/six_hour_raytracer/)
Lean 4 -- https://github.com/kmill/lean4-raytracer
PHP -- https://github.com/phpia/raytracer
Haskell -- https://github.com/Viva-Lambda/rt-haskell/
Erlang -- https://github.com/tanguyl/raytracer

Ray Tracing: The Next Week

C -- https://github.com/Morozov-5F/raytracing-weekend
C++ -- https://github.com/define-private-public/PSRayTracing, https://github.com/TheRayTracer/Monte_Carlo, https://github.com/LiuZengqiang/RayTracingTheNextWeek
Clojure -- https://github.com/Clojure2D/clojure2d-examples/tree/master/src/rt4/the_next_week
CUDA -- https://github.com/D-K-E/cuda-raytracer
Julia -- https://github.com/rafaellg79/raytracing
Java -- https://github.com/catfoolyou/Java-RTX
Rust -- https://github.com/garethkcjones/rays, https://github.com/nya3jp/raytracing, https://github.com/aarestad/ray-tracing-rs
OCaml -- https://github.com/MisakaCenter/RayTracer.ml
Haskell -- https://github.com/Viva-Lambda/rt-haskell/
Lua -- https://github.com/jonasgeiler/3d-raytracer-lua
Slang -- https://github.com/cacti9/Ray-tracing-the-next-week-Slang-Vulkan

Ray Tracing: The Rest Of Your Life

C++ -- https://github.com/TheRayTracer/Monte_Carlo, https://github.com/LiuZengqiang/RayTracingTheRestofYourLife
Rust -- https://github.com/Dalamar42/rayt, https://github.com/nya3jp/raytracing, https://github.com/pbmtp/raytracer, https://github.com/takah29/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-rust
Haskell -- https://github.com/Viva-Lambda/rt-haskell/
Lean 4 -- https://github.com/takah29/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend-lean