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Why Oak? | Oak programming language

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In mid-2019, I wrote my first programming language as a hobby learning project. It was called Ink, and was a very simple dynamically typed scripting language in the spirit of JavaScript and Lua. For the next two year, I built lots and lots of projects and tools with Ink, and learned a lot about both building and using my own programming language.

Why Oak? ← Posts 8 Sep 2021 In mid-2019, I wrote my first programming language as a hobby learning project. It was called Ink , and was a very simple dynamically typed scripting language in the spirit of JavaScript and Lua. For the next two years, I built lots and lots of projects and tools with Ink, and learned a lot about both building and using my own programming language. My biggest takeaway was this: When we design the vocabulary with which we build our tools and projects, we can move much faster, build more fearlessly, and gain a deeper understanding of the systems we build. This po

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