Back in the 80's when I started my career creating a PL was a right of passage. You got bonus cred if it were compiled and not interpreted! Most people weren't

Back in the 80's when I started my career creating a PL was a right of passage. You got bonus cred if it were compiled and not interpreted! Most people weren't writing general-purpose languages and the languages were very domain-focused - but they were languages nonetheless. It's been kinda sad to see that die. So I agree with you - go write that programming language if that floats your boat and just have fun doing it for the sake of doing it.