Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language 26 by jianmin-chen | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey! I’m JC. I’m 17 and part of Hack Club, a nonprofit where we help teenagers ship programming projects with their friends while growing technically. A while ago, I asked myself the question, “How exactly do programming languages work behind the scenes?” It seemed really daunting until I went to a half hour workshop at a high school hackathon about writing a tree-walk interpreter and realized that getting started was actually super fun. This guide is designed in the vein of that - to get people, especially teenagers, started on learning how to build a programming language in a literal weekend by actually shipping one. It’s a stepping stone for learning the big things - compilers, optimizations for performance, etc. It’s very inspired by Crafting Interpreters and why’s poignant guide, but meant to be approachable in a weekend. Some backstory on me: A ye