Really cute ASCII art graphing in Julia: https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/ASCIIPlots.jl
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Bril is a cute intermediate language for teaching (think simplified LLVM IR): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
The idea of providing a standard JSON format to help students write basic passes is really elegant.
One cute feature of markdown I'd not noticed before: there's no syntax for images *without* a description (i.e. alt text).

https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#images
Really cute approach to reporting type errors: when there's a type error, show an example of a runtime error that the type check has prevented!
Data-Driven Techniques for Type Error Diagnosis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59s4h4pv