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These are good questions.

The end goal is much farther along than what's being presented now. This has, for the most part, been a one person effort. I was motivated by my Compilers course and a minimal Java compiler we developed targeting MIPS to start a project creating my own language.

Much of my experience with programming languages has been with interpreted or scripted languages. I find that they have a really low barrier to entry. But ideally Duck would have its own binary compiler and other tools. It's just that right now, in the language forming stage, it makes sense to formalize all aspects of the programming language first. In the future, it might be the case that Duck has significantly better performance than Lua or Python, but I can't really tell at the moment, especially without some tweaks to the language that move it towards static/strongly typed code. This is just the nature of reality.

So yes, it's mainly a toy language at this stage, but I would like to see it optimally used as a game language. I think it may be extremely easy to have it facing several different platforms, and use it as a high-level abstraction for loading 3D meshes and manipulating an interactive world.