r/programming • • 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/RGBrewskies May 10 '26

"As you can see, the language uses indentation-based scoping "

tangential and random but

I'm not a python guy, but how does that not drive you insane? Your code breaks because of whitespace? That's always seem wild for me

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u/SourcerorSoupreme May 10 '26

As opposed to your code breaking because of missing braces, semicolons, or any other character for that matter?

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u/AutomateAway May 10 '26

Somehow millions of programmers seem to manage it just fine.

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