and continuing to be developed) for the main use case of building personal projects and tools. Beyond the obvious pleasure of building projects with my own programming language, I think using a small language that I understand and control fully to build projects has had some unexpected upsides.</p><h3>Oak all the way down</h3><p>Andreas Kling, who created <a href="https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity">SerenityOS</a>, describes the virtue of owning the "full stack" of software in his <a href="https://corec