When I started programming, the basic digital world already existed for me. I never had the experience of typing in a program from a magazine. This is one of th

When I started programming, the basic digital world already existed for me. I never had the experience of typing in a program from a magazine. This is one of those odd experiences where you remember that self-hosting[1] can involve far more components than just the compiler, spiraling an unexpectedly deep path into the development stack. I just used @antirez's 1k LOC kilo editor to edit his 1K LOC editor and it was an oddly pleasurable experience :) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting