Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages. ... Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because o

Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages. ... Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made. How can I prototype my tooling when it takes so, so, so much work to make the tooling work for a practical language? I’ll just make a mini-language to prototype that tooling and then get back to the widely-used languages once my prototype has taught me enough. ...