That's not a lecture, that's a bit of hard-earned advice right there. Anyone who has embarked on a language project for the first time (as the author is doing now) learns this one way or another. You get some toy programs compiling and you think "great! Almost done, now just to implement borrow checking" and 16 months later you have to squint to see the progress you've made. That's just the reality of it.

Or you just don't implement borrow checking -- which the language doesn't claim to have.

There are literally dozens of good enough small languages, e.g.: Nim, Zig, Crystal, Pony, etc etc, and at least the first two were written by a single person for the most part.

There are many other single-author single-serving languages (used to make games for example GOOL in Crash Bandicoot etc).

Not saying this can't be vaporware, but it's not beyond comprehension.

Heck, not long ago, a guy (with some psychological issues too) made his own OS, high level language compiler (HolyC), drivers, UI, and a flight simulator in assembler and HolyC, all working too (TempleOS).

There's nothing extraordinary on the website. Everything mentioned there was done before.

Do you know of any single person that has written a C++ transpiler into another language from scratch?

Bjarne Stroustrup? :)

I'm not building it from scratch, I use clang parser.

You talk too much with a lot of confidence without knowing quite enough. You also claim Rust isn't free of race conditions when the Rust type system (claims) that it is. (using Sync types).

Please stop commenting in negative way specially since you're not very knowledgeable.

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Stop attacking people with off-topic issues and go away.

PS: of course I claim Rust isn't free of race conditions. Its own designers also claim it:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

You won't even believe the official docs of Rust? :)

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