[brundolf]

I have a CS degree but we just never really covered parsing or compiling at all, for whatever reason (well... technically we talked about the formal theory behind grammars a little bit but we never did anything with it, and it hasn't really been useful at all)

But I always dreamed of making a programming language so one of my pandemic projects was to read Crafting Interpreters, and ever since then I've been a little bit obsessed

That's a great point about regexes! I'll have to keep that one in mind