Build tools and programming languages are a trap. Many (most?) good developers at some point decide that they're fed up with their tools and want to build their

Build tools and programming languages are a trap. Many (most?) good developers at some point decide that they're fed up with their tools and want to build their own. If you prefix `make` with any letter of the alphabet and Google it, you'll find someone's toy (or, occasionally, deployed) build tool project. But most of this effort is a huge waste. I personally have now designed two languages (including three separate iterations of one of them) and three build tools. I say that with shame, not pride. In my defense, Ekam was at the time I wrote it just a fun weekend project. I wouldn't have done it while on the clock for anything important. :) And then having written it, it turned out to be useful enough that I kept using it. ::shrug::