[sureglymop]

I agree with you bosch_mind. Building an interpreter is not hard, building a well optimized interpreter definitely is.

But that is not needed for an educational project. I encourage people to do things out of curiosity. Just ask yourself, what else is there that I could do that I haven't yet tried? (if you have the time)

It's not a flex or resume building or whatever (who cares about that?), it's a learning opportunity. I do think that sometimes there is a collective "this is hard" stance for things that we haven't had to do in a while because maybe they have been abstracted away or good solutions already exist. But the "this is hard" stance is actually harmful if it scares one away even though things turn out to be totally doable once one overcomes that mental hurdle.