From a Small Village to Building My Own Programming Language: The Journey of a 14-Year-Old Coder

Introduction My name is Aditya Rai, and my story isn’t about high-end setups or expensive bootcamps. It’s about a 14-year-old boy from Laksar, Uttarakhand, who dreamt of Google while holding nothing but a mobile phone and a handwritten diary. The Humble Beginnings: Coding on Paper My journey started with a burning desire to contribute to Google’s Open Source. Back then, I didn't even have a computer. I spent my school holidays and free lectures diving into HTML and JavaScript. While my friends were busy playing, I was hunting for bugs in Google’s Bug Bounty program. Though my first report was rejected, it didn't break me—it fueled me. I started practicing code using a diary gifted by my principal, Mr. Max Muller. I would perform "Dry Runs" of complex algorithms on paper because I had no screen to run them on. The Birth of NF-1 and Microkernel Before I even touched my first PC, I had already designed the syntax for my own programming language, NF-1. I learned the basics of C, understood