Comment by chrismsimpson

I always had the dream of building a language, then I did it and found what an extraordinary undertaking it is, and abandoned it. The issue is not getting something working early on or lack of supporting tooling. The issue (as I see it) is that most well known languages are extraordinarily sophisticated not just in their syntax but also things like debugging, profiling & analysis. Once you start conceptualising an entire system to get actual work done, you realise it really isn’t feasible as a lone endeavour. While not impossible, it’s very hard to be an expert in all these fields. You are therefore presented a choice: somehow fund your language (maybe you’re rich), or make it open source. Just open sourcing something isn’t a silver bullet either, successful projects often have a charismatic leader. I generally prefer to program alone when working on vanity projects, so I figure I’d just wait until someone invents something that most aligns to my tastes (SerenityOS/Jakt is close).