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Creating a new language is trivial (Hell, I've made one). Creating a robust, well-designed, full-featured, peformant language is very much not.

And that totally ignores the absolutely massive benefit of having a community around your language of choice. Libraries, bug fixes, googleability, a pool of programmers to hire from, etc, etc, etc.



I agree completely, but I am curious what your answer to his question would be. What would you have done in that situation?




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