Developer Spotlight: Meet Bryan MacLee — The Truck Driver Building His Own Programming Language
🚀 What if you worked long shifts in the oil and gas industry and spent your spare time building your own programming language?
Meet Bryan MacLee, the creator of Scriml, a programming language designed to rethink how web applications are built.
In this CoderLegion Developer Spotlight, host Tom Smith talks with Bryan about his programming journey, the ideas behind Scriml, and the challenges of building a compiler independently.
💡 What You'll Discover
- The beginning: How Bryan discovered programming as a teenager.
- Life beyond coding: Balancing oilfield truck-driving work with software development.
- Building Scriml: Why he decided to create his own programming language.
- Simplifying web development: His approach to frontend-backend communication, validation and compilation.
- The compiler challenge: What it's like to build a programming language largely on your own.
- What's next: Bryan's hopes for Scriml and getting other developers to try it.
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