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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

A developer has written about how a simple task that required basic arithmetic escalated into building their own functional programming language. The blog post chronicles the journey from wanting to compute one plus one to creating a full language, and it is drawing attention and discussion among programmers on Hacker News.

Why now: The amusing escalation from a trivial calculation to building an entire programming language resonates with developers who recognise the tendency to over-engineer.

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