It took me many years to get Scroll (https://scroll.pub/ https://scroll.pub/) to the point where I love it and am confident it will be the dominant language for

It took me many years to get Scroll (https://scroll.pub/ https://scroll.pub/) to the point where I love it and am confident it will be the dominant language for blogging going forward (replacing markdown). I first had to invent Tree Notation (2017), which I got wrong on my first two tries (2012's Note and 2013's Space). Then I needed to invent Grammar (2017), and then I made the predecessor to Scroll called Dumbdown (2019). 2 years after that I shipped the first version of Scroll (2021). Now we are on Scroll version 58 and it's blazing fast, very simple, extremely extendible, and scales very well. Already today over 20,000 people have visited sites powered by Scroll! It was 90% me for a while, but recently been very much a team effort. It took a while to get right because it's a whole new kind of language—lots of mini languages that combine seamlessly— so there were a lot of mistakes that I made and had to undo, and it took a while to figure out exactly what was special about it and how to double down on that.