There are lots of resources out there about making a parser and interpreter and calling that a “language”. While those two components are necessary, alone they don’t seem sufficient in 2022 to call something a programming language; the scope of what a language is has expanded to include the ecosystem and community, which are often aspects cited these days for using or not using many languages.

Question: does anyone know of resources that discuss the rest of programming language design?

- designing a standard library

- building tooling like debuggers and package managers

- interfacing with other languages

- managing and growing a community

- evolving the language over time as it grows

- integrating with IDEs and building language server support

- how to communicate the language to others so they understand the value proposition.

- how to choose the right set of features to support. How to discern a good set from a bad set, how to make the language stand out and unique.

- also maybe issues of how to stay motivated and focused. It takes years to build a language, how does one stay committed to it over that time?

I understand why there might not be many resources that cover these angles, as not many language projects get past the parser stage, but I’m still curious what others have found.