I’ve been spending a lot of time myself designing and prototyping my “ideal” language (mainly to address gripes with other languages) and I totally agree with t

I’ve been spending a lot of time myself designing and prototyping my “ideal” language (mainly to address gripes with other languages) and I totally agree with the OP about it being a near total waste of time. But at the same time, albeit being a gargantuan amount of work it helps you learn alot about programming up and down the stack. Good language design requires lots of thought, devotion, trial and error and self moderation to come down to something consistent and coherent that’s not a mess of all the cool little features you thought it would be a good idea to put in.