- Author: Robert Nystrom
- Genre: Tech / Dev
Overview
This book takes you through the process of building a programming language from scratch, implementing both a tree-walk interpreter and a bytecode virtual machine. It's written in a highly readable, hands-on style that demystifies compiler design.
Plotline & Key Takeaways
The guide walks through lexical analysis, parsing, representation, and execution, building two distinct implementations of the Lox language. It shows how compilers handle memory management, garbage collection, and dynamic typing in a very practical way. By the end, you don't just understand theory, you actually have working code that executes your own custom language constructs.