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Well, regardless of age, anyone is statistically very unlikely to create a popular programming language. It would have been more interesting to have statistics
by psychoslave 2y ago
Well, regardless of age, anyone is statistically very unlikely to create a popular programming language.
It would have been more interesting to have statistics focusing on where the people worked at language creation time (kind of social structure, in which country), what purpose it was trying to fill.
As other said, just do what you enjoy. It's unlikely you are going to face any issue for which creating a whole new programming language will a be more efficient approach than using any of the plethora which are already existing with mature ecosystems and many production applications working on top of it. But if you desire to create one, don't let popularity probability temper your quest.
- space_oddity 2y agoWhile the odds are low, it's not impossible... Many popular languages today started as passion projects
- tyleo 2y agoI agree with this approach. I tried to make a few on my own and no one liked them. I wasted a lot of time making good dependencies for them because it felt like the right way and made me intellectually satisfied even though it really burned time towards the end result. Turns out the dependencies got thousands of downloads vs the actual product. Unless you need the money, if you are trying to be productive in free time have a strong bias towards things that make you happy and don’t worry about the outcome so much.