So You Want To Write Your Own Language

[Jakob Jenkov via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> This has resurfaced on Reddit:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/


Hi Walther, interesting article. I guess it's like with 
entrepreneurship in general. It's a lot of work and lots of 
people will tell that you don't have what it takes, it won't 
work, you can't beat the big guys etc. But, as you progress and 
they see the results, more and more of them change their "no" to 
"maybe", "hmm..." and "yes".

I am working on a cloud project where we will also need to 
implement a little language that can run inside our cloud. The 
constraints are quite different from a general purpose language 
in terms of compilation / interpretation time, memory usage etc. 
so the design will probably be different than e.g. D.

I am looking forward to this project. Yes, it's geeky, and yes, 
it will probably "suck" in the first versions - but eventually we 
will get there, and it will work just fine.