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by sevagh 799 days ago
So if you're not 10x, what's the point of you having built a mediocre educational lexer and interpreter?
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bosch_mind 799 days ago
Personal growth and enjoyment mainly. Understanding how languages work at a deeper level. Pure enjoyment of learning my craft as is any project I do involving programming outside of work.

When you understand your tools, you understand your job more. You also can appreciate things more from a different perspective.

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all2 799 days ago
Because its fun. I'm not a 10x (not even close), but I dabble in languages, parsers, interpreters, etc. for fun.
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