I’m the last person who should carry rocks around in a glass house on HN etiquette: I mouth off too much.

But I’m working on it and I cordially invite you to join me in making an effort to be more productive, especially regarding students, self learners, and other more junior community members trying to get started on ambitious hacking.

I think GP is just asking if the author thinks it’s possible. I remember it was hard in the beginning to know - when I would get stuck - if I needed to keep banging my head against it or if I had hit a dead end.

You should exercise your own programming muscles and write your own IDE, Operating system , cpu architecture, fabrication process and electricity generation for yourself, rather than relying on others to do everything for you.