That just seems like poor discipline.

But not like creating a typesetting system to use to write your book.

It seems like it is shaping up to a pretty nice language. But writing the compiler in itself is very 20th-century. Just add a parser to LLVM or Gcc and call it good.

But don't make the mistake C, C++, and Rust did, using a prefix dereference operator. Pascal got that one right.

BTW: "get" in a pure function name is code smell. More generally, transitive verbs in pure function names are code smell.