How to write your own Programming Language

At one point in a programmer's journey, one will inevitably find themselves wondering how programming languages came to be. How did the first language get written? What was the first language? I am to answer all of these questions in this article. This article will assumesome knowledge of computer fundamentals, but will be a very gentle introduction; this should even be accessible to a javascript developer.

Most of my knowledge on this topic comes from Robert Nystrom's fantastic book Crafting Interpreters^[1]1In my opinion, the best possible introduction to programming languages out there. Go check it out!.

I will now discuss the usage of a Knight^[2]2This is a side explanation about knightsin the ancient game of Chess.