you can put wings on a motorbike, attach a boat hull on a train, grow a tree in a boat, build a house upside down, have a toilet made of gold, create a ski trac

you can put wings on a motorbike, attach a boat hull on a train, grow a tree in a boat, build a house upside down, have a toilet made of gold, create a ski track in a hot country... It's useless, expensive, doesn't make sense, doesn't improve technologies, but you can show it to the world, and it will be talked about. The benefit might be to teach people about using compiler technologies: front end, back end, optimizers, parsers etc, so that they might create some new, useful, well designed language. My beef with hackers is that they sometime totally lack insight and design goal. That's cool to have access to technology and tinkering, but if you don't explore any new way of doing things, it's a little sad.