Crafting Interpreters

Must read for anyone interested in programming (whether you like to build interpreters or not). The step-by-step approach, gentle introduction to complex topics and humor is a joy to read.

Excellent book! It takes a hands-on approach to implementing an interpreter. While it covers the basics of theory, it also walks you through two complete implementations of an interpreter for the Lox language (a language designed specifically for this book). The book is not heavy on theory and is an excellent choice for someone who knows nothing about interpreters and wants to learn by doing or for someone who also wants to be able to say, "I wrote an interpreter." It is also beautifully designed, full of nice illustrations, and is written with humor.

I own a dozen or so books on compilers and programming languages, and I have to say that this one is probably the easiest to read and understand. It's one of the very few books I have read cover to cover. The author has a great writing style, and I hope he writes more. The content of the book is available online for free, but I had to get a printed copy. I owe that to the author.

No he acabado el libro Compiladores no es un tema sencillo El libro es útil, completo y tiene resursos en GitHub que espero sean de utilidad La pega es que se quiere implementar el lenguaje Lox (?!) Por otra parte no se usa ni explica ni Lex ni Yacc con el objetivo de implementar todas las partes del compilador Se usa inglés nativo con expresiones coloquiales pero en general bien

Excellent book on Interpreter design. The "Dragon" book and "Crafting Interpreters" are an awesome couple.

This book is well-written, easy to understand (for someone who has prior programming experience in Java/C), and comes with a complete example code base with step-by-step instructions for readers to replicate the example implementation. Reading this book would be a great starting point for someone who is looking to learn how programming languages are implemented, or to study how to build an interpreter and a runtime with examples. Being beginner-friendly makes it *correct, but not comprehensive*, as the author has noted in the book. Hence it isn't suitable for someone who wants an in-depth and comprehensive view of, say, PL theory, optimization techniques etc. Overall, I think it is a great book and has recommended it to many of my friends. However, I am giving it 4 stars because it is one of the rare cases in which I find that it is actually easier to read the book electronically, mostly because the book is printed in grayscale, which makes the code snippets (especially syntax highlighting and the "grayed-out" lines) a little hard to read. There is a free web version of this book available, and I had probably read over 80% of the book electronically.

Nice book, the quality of the book itself is really good, would definitely recommend reading this one if you’re into that kind of work.

This book is a gem for those who wish to learn about and build compilers. It gets the balance between teaching you concepts and then showing you how to do it. It builds both the concepts and the code necessary step by step, and each step is easy to consume. Before you know it, you've already mastered and coded up what would have seem like a daunting task. The choice of teaching you to build the compiler twice, first in a higher level language to get you familiar with the end to end process, and the second exposes you to very advanced techniques in C such as byte code single pass generation and execution, garbage collection, efficient implementation of closures, etc., also dramatically simplified the overall learning experience.

You must have a solid software engineering background to comprehend this book

very good book... well built... very well printed. Although, the book is available online, it is good to have a paper book.

It makes all topics easy to digest. It's so satisfying to see the interpreter slowly become more powerful. You will go through many interesting cs topics, like closures and garbage collectors. Many chapters ends with additional notes that analyze the implementation choice between different real languages.

Teaches about compilers, interpreters and language runtime in a hands-on, pragmatic and accessible way. Great reading!

Si alguna vez quisiste saber cómo escribir un intérprete de un lenguaje de programación de (relativamente) alto nivel, este es un gran libro. El autor empieza definiendo el lenguaje que quiere implementar (Lox) y luego desarrollo dos intérpretes para este lenguaje, uno en Java (para entender las bases) y luego otro mucho más rápido en C, pero también más complejo, en C. Se trata de un libro ameno, escrito por un experto que conoce el tema a fondo y que te permitirá aprender todos los conceptos fundamentales. ¡Altamente recomendado!