First of all, I am sorry if this is not strictly a techincal post, but I would apreciate if it would be allowed. So a couple of years ago, like a year or two before the chatgpt, I made my own interpreted programming language. It could be used for basic scripts and had basic functionalities like nested ifs and while, string, int and double types, variable scopes and even functions and recursion. It can parse math with + - + ÷ and brackets. It is nothing special, syntax resambeles more or less C# but with keyword in my natural language. It was made entirely by hand, from lexical analysis, parser, semantic analyser and the interpreter itself. I also made ebnf for it.
I think we on this sub can all agree that there are a few of us programmers, developers or cs-s who willingly put themselves through this. It can be painstakingly hard to implement a new language. I am very proud of it and to this day it is my biggest achivement. No other thing in my proffesional or personal projects required such level of detail, knowledge and research.
And all this before the AI. But here is where it gets frustrating. Back than this was my "selling point". This was something that I could show my knowledge, dedication and attention to detail with. It made me feel safe for my professional future. Now I am afraid that it doesn't mean enything anymore. Like nobody gives a s*** about it anymore.
