Few projects are as enticing or as rewarding as creating your own programming language. It’s impractical, sure. But as an exercise, it strengthens muscles that most of us don’t get to use very often and makes us better all-around developers. In this article — the first in a series — Alex Braha Stoll shows us how to get started building our own toy language and interpreter from scratch using Ruby. https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/stoffle-introduction/