> I've learned on several occasions that things don't actually work that way. It might work (maybe) if your goal is "reimplement a popular language but fix the

> I've learned on several occasions that things don't actually work that way. It might work (maybe) if your goal is "reimplement a popular language but fix the mistakes". Eg "we're gonna build on [langA] but allow breaking changes and call it [langB]". Lots of examples where that hasn't worked, but then there's lots of examples where new languages just fail regardless of pedigree.