Disciple of Christ and software engineer, concurrency wizard subclass.
Things I like: programming (probably in Rust), computer hardware, music, guitars, synthesizers, video games
I mean, 2 and 4 have been true already for quite some time in my experience.
Well with Arabic numerals, zero is also the most physically round. :)
I’d call it Paradox Lang, or PL for short. It even has features that are contradictory to each other, you just have to declare which mode you want at the top of every file. Can you imagine. :)
The only feature it doesn’t have is “lightweight and minimal language”.
Quite a few languages that are major players now started as hobby languages.
Well I guess I am part of “they” since I have my own programming language pet project. Why did I create it? Because I wanted to, mostly. Sure, there are also some finer language design choices I wanted to choose differently for my preference, but mainly I just wanted to learn how.