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Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by xandrius »

smith7018 wrote: post #3
dang wrote: post #58

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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…

Totally agree on every point and I'm not being negative, the thing is that stating the age is something most people wouldn't even think (I like to believe we all still see ourselves as kids in our minds), so if someone puts it there themselves (as opposed to being a news article written by someone else) then they are doing it for marketing purposes.

I did lots of cool stuff "for being made by a 17yo" but in retrospect it was not objectively great.

Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by jimvdv »

smith7018 wrote: post #3
dang wrote: post #58

[stub for offtopicness]

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…

HN is so full of negative comments like these. OP I’m very impressed you learned all of this at 17! I started coding when I was a teenager but still haven’t released something like this 10 years later.

Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by [deleted] »

stephencoyner wrote: post #4
smith7018 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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.

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Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by Zambyte »

stephencoyner wrote: post #4
smith7018 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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.

Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by lionkor »

unglaublich wrote: post #8
dang wrote: post #58

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The primary reason it should not be listed is that it entirely distracts from the content, as one can see by there being few comments (as of right now) that talk about the contents. Only comments about age.

Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by kunley »

That's great!

You have excellent inspirations, both of them.

It's also awesome that your adventures with parsers happen quite early in your coding life, that's a big plus, you will look at things from different perspective. (Btw, contrary to some other commenters here, I think it's great you have mentioned your age xD).

Btw, I totally recommend getting into VM-based approach from the second half of Robert Nystrom's book. It's not only closer to how hardware works, but also it resembles how early compilers were written when memory was scarce. I implemented stuff based on that approach and learned a lot, even though I am coding for thirty years. If you had some comments, questions or even already hacked on that, I'd love to hear about it - you can find the email on my profile page here.

Good luck!

Re: Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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Post by [deleted] »

Zambyte wrote: post #14
stephencoyner wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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