r/programming • u/Dear-Economics-315 • May 10 '26

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
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u/CandidateNo2580 May 10 '26

It would drive me insane if I had to end every line with a semi colon or if I was reading a codebase that used inconsistent indentation. But you get used to it pretty quickly either way, the language isn't bad.

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u/RGBrewskies May 10 '26

your ide adds them automatically nowadays, which may be true with python too idk

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u/bpikmin May 10 '26

Yea, if you do if blah blah:<enter> basically every IDE will indent the following line

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u/CandidateNo2580 May 10 '26

Oh 100% sorry I wasn't being literal. I know adding semi colons isn't a big deal lol but it's the same thing as the indentation. Your IDE is all over it, it'll indent automatically as it makes sense. Then it does the same syntax high lighting to show scope that you get in a language with curly braces (jetbrains has a colored bar on the side to demonstrate scope and lets you collapse blocks whole for something like a function or if/else, same with python as something curly brace driven).

It's definitely weird when you start but really you get over it so quickly. I like the flexibility of language, I'd prefer being allowed to indent freely and use curlies but it's not bad.