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Are you the sole person working on this? How much time have you out into it and what's the hardest thing you've bumped into?
by maest 7y ago
Are you the sole person working on this? How much time have you out into it and what's the hardest thing you've bumped into?
- tlack 7y agoI've been thinking about making a language since 2004 or so but never actually made a serious attempt. I worked on XXL by myself for about four months with the support of my employer. I'm kind of an idiot so I had to learn a lot of stuff to make any progress at all. The hardest part was figuring out how the execution mechanism would work - what exactly happens when code is evaluated, etc. There is obviously tons of prior art to look at from other languages but I wanted to take my own more minimal approach to the problem and not design an entire virtual machine with bytecode, etc.
- maest 7y agoThanks for taking the time to answer! Which resources would you recommend for someone who's learning about building a pgoramming language?