> Implementing a Lisp for real is years of hard work, and many hair-pulling moments. I think this can be said about any language that came after people stopped

> Implementing a Lisp for real is years of hard work, and many hair-pulling moments. I think this can be said about any language that came after people stopped programming directly in assembly language. Even the low-level languages like C are programmed in themselves (mostly) after the first run of bootstrapping compilers written before most of us were even born. One could knock out a simple C compiler, without a standard library, in not too long I suspect (and have seen examples of) but why bother if all you want to do is learn the fundamentals and there’s a simpler language you could tackle — one with many, many guides on how to make a simple one I might add. Now I’m wondering if someone made a lisp in native wasm…