Hello!

I get asked this question a lot. My goal for this project is not to convince you to use it. This new language does _nothing_ that you couldn't find in other languages today. This project won't take over the world, and many people ask me what the point of it is. It's purely a project stemmed from curiosity with absolutely no capitalistic motives. I did it based on my years of self-directed research studying many incredible programming languages, and this is what I have to show for my research.

My motivation for this was to learn how to build a programming language with a grammar, virtual machine, and garbage collector. It's a hobby project, not intended to be used for business.

For personal work, consider starting with "Show HN" in the title. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Show HN has its own rules and so forth but they are about posting work under the Show HN rubric. They aren't a requirement, though, you don't have to post personal work as a Show HN.

FWIW, I think I would be particularly confused by a "Show HN" on a project that the author explicitly didn't intend for me to actually use?

Author:

> My motivation for this was to learn how to build a programming language with a grammar, virtual machine, and garbage collector.

Show HN FAQ:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

My guess is the author shared it for the learning opportunity.

ShowHN FAQ: Commentators: Be nice! Yupp, fits ShowHN better.

Why not Annalang?

A little mean-spirited, perhaps? Not everything needs a "point". Sometimes it's just fun to make stuff.

Maybe OP could phrase it a bit better, but i dont think its wrong to want some context. If its just for fun, that's definitely cool, but its also good to say that. Similarly, if there is something unique about the language, it would be nice to say that too.

Its not that the project has to be ground breaking or anything, just be nice to know what we're looking at.

Perhaps the author made it for themselves and not you...

Well it’d still be good to know why the author made it. Is it a toy language to learn about how to build a vm-interpreted language? Is it because the author can’t stand Python indentation. Or maybe there is a reason that clearly makes this interesting to use in the real world.

Because from the readme, it doesn’t look like this language brings anything to the table compared to Python/Node.

This is posted by the author himself, I find it pretty rude to let people figure out the point of their own project when promoting it.

“promoting” is a bit of an assumption. God bless Hacker News.

Is it? Irrespective of what I think of the post, I can't see any context in which posting it to a large forum full of strangers wouldn't count as 'promoting it'.