On: Crafting Interpreters: A Review

[hardwaregeek]

I love this book! My only gripe is that I wish it was a whole series, no, a whole genre of books. We need more hands on, code first books that take you through 1-2 extended projects where you can type along and get working code at the end. These books should have CS theory, but still be fundamentally focused on implementation. It'd be really fun to have one of these for a more functional compiler (type checking, code generation, optimization), for a language service (query based compilation, concrete syntax trees, language server protocol), for databases, operating systems, and so on. Ideally they'd be a cross between an O'Reilly book and a SerenityOS stream

[dunefox → hardwaregeek]

Yeah, I'd love to read this book with a more functional language as target, and compilers as you mentioned.

[xrobledo84 → dunefox]

I agree. I would also like an example with static typing. Also I would like a book on how to create a visual scripting language.