Errand Part 1 - Why Another Language?
Intro Whenever I see new programming languages, the #1 question I see people ask, and one I ask myself, is why? What problems does this language solve that aren’t solved by an existing language? Why is this language the solution to those problems? Why can’t this be added to an existing language or as a library? The most common answer to this is simply that they wanted to learn about what it takes to make a programming language. And honestly I also fall into this bucket. I had written a tiny parser in College, and had a general understanding of how interpreters and compilers worked but wanted to get my hands dirty trying to write a real language 1. ...