Awesome, I love to see new programming languages in action. This is great. Some thoughts. First, ignore negativity and focus on getting constructive feedback.

Awesome, I love to see new programming languages in action. This is great. Some thoughts. First, ignore negativity and focus on getting constructive feedback. One of my tiny regrets is that I abandoned one of my projects due partially to negative energy. Many years ago, one of my projects was shared here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480 ), and the feedback was kind of a buzzkill (especially since I wasn't the one sharing it). Second, think about the growth you want. While I could ignore the buzzkill and keep the faith, I used my language to put a real product out into the world. The crazy thing is that I got it working and working very well, but when it came to hire. It was a cluster fuck. I should have spent a bunch more time on documentation and examples, but I had other concerns that were higher priority. I ultimately had to abandon the whole thing, and I just rewrote everything in C# and used Mono. It was painful, but the company was able to grow faster since the tools were somewhat standard and a plethora examples for the new hires. When I look back, I was onto something. If I had kept the faith and pushed through, then I would have created something very similar to HHVM which Facebook uses. My strategy back then was to create a less awful language, improve it, then port the platform bits to a better ecosystem and preserve the "business logic". My core advice with the programming language side of the house is to find a partner for you to lead/follow with shared values. Make it open source as soon as possible, don't wait.