I remember a golden age of programming reddit and HN in the late 2000s that inspired me learn a bunch of new programming languages, Haskell the biggest influence among them. It seemed like people were always posting their own personal languages, lisps (I remember the hot takes on Arc lol), and such all the time. I have very fond memories of going through Jack Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" after seeing it posted a bunch of times, then trying to build my own language in a similar vein.

Cheers to you, and I hope you're learning and having fun working on your project!