Nerdcore 4 Life

I recently asked this question on Stack Overflow and man, I am now seriously tempted to see what it’s like to build a byte code compiler. As I mentioned there, I have built a compiler before(for school). It was a trivial example and I remember that taking an obscene amount of time.

Fleshing out the VimL language with a byte coder is insane. It’s years of work when I have other things I want to do and other things I need to do. Most people don’t write VimL code long enough to get an advantage from it to begin with.
But still, the thought haunts me.