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Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
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Totally unrelated to the content of your post but labeling posts with "I'm [a teenager] and X" has always irked me. It either serves to undermine the content (older people immediately questioning the authority of a teenager) or people respond with meaningless praise ("Wow, great job! I was playing video games when I was your age!"). It also harkens back to the 2000s and 2010s when the industry was obsessed with "teen…
I don't think there's an issue. Discourse on HN can be daunting for anyone. Sometimes it helps to know there are people your own age doing cool things. It makes it more accessible, which is a good thing.
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#26Congratulations on launching the project!
Making a programming language is a great way to better understand computation and start to explore different means of expressing concepts in code beyond those available in existing languages.
Programming languages are a difficult concept to get one's head around. Having one that implements a lexer, parser, and execution engine -- and is packaged as a resource for others to use -- is an impressive technical feat.
Writing a guide so others can learn is doubly impressive.
Asking a question like "How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?" is a great quality to have in your creative pursuits. Not to mention that such questions are the basis of HN: journeys that satisfy our creative curiosities.
Keep making cool things!
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One piece of feedback: I find the size of the code instruction boxes on the page a bit small. There are no visual indicators that I need to scroll down to see all of the code. I would love for the boxes to be taller so I can read the code and retain all the context without scrolling.
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Another idea: You may enjoy writing a post about what you learned making the language. What did you find more difficult than you thought? What challenges did you run into? How did you solve them? Why did you choose the syntax you used?
I love reading about the how behind cool projects :D
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Totally unrelated to the content of your post but labeling posts with "I'm [a teenager] and X" has always irked me. It either serves to undermine the content (older people immediately questioning the authority of a teenager) or people respond with meaningless praise ("Wow, great job! I was playing video games when I was your age!"). It also harkens back to the 2000s and 2010s when the industry was obsessed with "teen…
This comes up every time someone posts like this, and it's not really very helpful.
What are HN's guidlines on young people mentioning their age in a Show HN like this post here? Should we take it graciously, admit they are young and encourage them for what they did or should we point out not to mention their age?
IMO, if we take the age out, some of show HN's might not look very interesting. Same goes for a Show HN where someone mentions they are not a programmer and yet built a thing.
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Totally unrelated to the content of your post but labeling posts with "I'm [a teenager] and X" has always irked me. It either serves to undermine the content (older people immediately questioning the authority of a teenager) or people respond with meaningless praise ("Wow, great job! I was playing video games when I was your age!"). It also harkens back to the 2000s and 2010s when the industry was obsessed with "teen…
This comes up every time someone posts like this, and it's not really very helpful.
I guess the point is that saying you are a teenager in the title can seem like an unfair way to game your post ranking by garnering awe/sympathy.
Lots of middle aged people build cool things too, but they can't pull the age card to boost their rank on the front page (at least, not until they are at the other extreme - like 80 or 90 years old)
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There’s been a concerning trend of less and less young, successful founders. Where is the modern Zuck, Gates or Patrick Collison? I say good on OP for putting themselves out there and keep pushing. We need young people to come up with great ideas and if that comes with them pointing out how young they are, I’m totally fine with it.
I think there have been fewer young technology founders because I think technology has become less and less accessible. There is so much more to sift through to get from an idea to a project or product than there was 10-20 years ago. I'm saying this as someone who is relatively young, so keep that in mind.
For some parts of the landscape like mobile app development, yes. Its hard to say if they are doing it with hidden intention, or if they sincerely believe enforcing their "best practices" on everyone yields greater good. Probably a bit of both.
The part where you build a demo/prototype showcasing if an idea works, I believe it should be much easier than before as long as you postpone understanding/deciphering the implementation. In those major ecosystems there are huge collections of single-purpose libraries doing a subset of what you want to do, all you need might just be a reasonable amount of python to string them together.
However, ensuring the correctness and actually deploying them for planet-scale mandates following a reasonable subset of "best practices" which is very overwhelming, but doable. People doesn't usually build planet-scale product 10-20 years ago.
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Honestly, very cool good for you.
Side note, I'd discourage leaning on your age/precociousness when doing stuff like this. It's a strategy with a limited shelf life, and sooner or later your work will have to stand on its own merit anyway.