><p><strong>I learn much more much faster about computers</strong>, because whenever I write a new project that touches a new domain like operating system signals or WebSockets or date/time parsing or Markdown rendering, I come to understand how everything works much deeper than if I had simply pulled in a library from NPM.</p><h3>The power of a self-hosted toolchain</h3><p>While I was building projects with Ink in the early days, I sort of stumbled into a path of building a lot of language tooling in Ink i