Why shouldn't I just create my own programming language?

>>57045462
Because you can't and are dumb?

>>57045462
You should, it's great practice. My personal project at the moment is doing exactly that, except I don't have any delusions about creating a great language: I'm just making a simplified C-like language and it's not going to be effective.

Anyway, as a bottom-up person, I've started with making a byte code format and then a virtual machine / interpreter that can run it. I'm currently able to place the interpreter and the bytecode into the same executable file and then point the interpreter at the code in memory. Doing this for all major architectures (Windows, Linux and Mac) has taught me a lot about Mach-O, ELF and PE.

reinventing the wheel is a waste of time, but then again, so is 4chan. go for it.

>>57045500
I'm not dumb and who says I cant? The only thing that's stopping me is that I know nothing about coding.

>>57045535
I'm not reinventing the wheel at all, there are many languages for different purposes right?

>>57045538
Well there you go, OP

You are welcome

>>57045538
>I know nothing about coding.

Make your own language and compiler that does just one thing. When you compile this:

a

make it say this in the terminal/prompt

Hello World!

Obviously without using bash or batch or anything, but by actually compiling it.

nice meme

>>57045462

Because your language will not be good unless you are really good at programming and spend a lot of time on it and it probably doesn't have a legitimate reason to be made in the first place

To create a (good) language takes a lot of careful thought

If you don't care and want to make one anyways, go ahead, but don't expect it to ever get used

>>57045462
Isn't that the guy from the most recent debate?

>>57045538

GCC is 7.3 million lines of code.

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>>57045462
Because renewable energy is killing jobs

>>57045462
You should. It may seem like a /g/ meme but a lisp interpreter is a great way to go because the syntax is a direct representation of what the machine evaluates. With other languages you'd need to learn about lexers and parsers and ASTs just to get off the ground.

>>57045538
oh wait nevermind, don't start with your own programming language, that's insane

>>57048257
GCC compiles to many architectures and has many optimization flags. If you use something like LLVM, creating your own compiler isn't too difficult. The front end of a compiler is doable by one person. The back end is where the insane complexity lies and these days LLVM is good enough that most people just write front end compilers on top of it.

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>wants to write his own programming language
>knows nothing about coding

learn to walk before trying to run, dumbass.