I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS

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Insert <it's not much but it's honest work> meme. It only supports ints and bools, some logic and simple arithmetics and it compiles to Java but damn was it hard to get that far.

Can you guess what everything does?

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People are designing languages with JetBrains MPS and I am making an AWK interpreter in C with Yacc, Lex and my own implementation of ASDL. Why do I do this to myself? It seems like the technology I like is way behind. Like C is a language created for freaking mini-computers like VAX and PDP-11 and I still use it? I knew about MPS, I just felt a strong dislike towards it. Now that I am no longer a pill addict, I have to reconsider the technology I choose to implement my stuff. C lacks portability, and QoL features.

(Psyche! All you n000bz can be stuck with your Fischer-Price toys --- I'll do it MY way, the 70s WAY!!!!1)

We think alike friend

Don't lose your passion, doing things the shit old way can also make you a better programmer in the newer paradigms

Although, I recommend you at least learn C++23

Reading this comment and then looking up and seeing that your username ends with PDP11 was *chef’s kiss*