> I've been designing mine since 2011, and I'm only now writing an interpreter after two failed attempts to bootstrap a compiler. You are lucky (or unlucky) th

> I've been designing mine since 2011, and I'm only now writing an interpreter after two failed attempts to bootstrap a compiler. You are lucky (or unlucky) that you have reached that stage. I'm trying since 2004 and had at least 6 failed attempts on design and 3 different implementations that never finished. Fortunately for me, since I had a lot of failed designs (as opposed to implementations) I better appreciate existing designs even with their warts.