[briantrice]

I don't feel motivated to work on it (this particular artifact) any more. I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be unwilling to do that in a deep way.

If I continue, it will be with a specific story in mind about who it's for and what message to convey. I have been attending The Strange Loop for a few years now and growing some ideas to write about.

It's worth noting that Slate was one major project in a long stream of development I started privately in the early 1990's and then brainstormed with some nerds on at the TUNES project until I made Slate its own thing (a kind of stepping stone towards the TUNES goals).

[mamcx]

For fun, I want to build a language. After see you can do a lisp very easy, I stop and wonder for what my "new" language can be useful. This make me think in how do a REPL, a debugger, what kind of task this must solve naturally, etc, and for which kind of users!

However, pull of a successfully language is very hard. That depress me.

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[briantrice]

You'll never regret it, and although every language is ultimately worth criticizing, it's worth having a project of your own to refine or learn from.

[seanmcdirmid]

> I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be unwilling to do that in a deep way.

Being a language designer is rough like this.