Sourceful VS Crafting Interpreters

This might be a good place to start.

www.hackingwithswift.com has good free resources and also some paid. Good place to start ;)

Sometimes the documentation can feel incomplete… though sometimes there are some really helpful tutorials. Once place I’ve found good info is from WWDC. Another is from Paul Hudson on https://www.hackingwithswift.com

Check out these resources.

For example, Paul Hudson's Hacking with Swift has 100 days of Swift and 100 days of SwiftUI. The first 15 days are dedicated to basics of programming like learning about variables, dictionary, etc. maybe you can skip through those but I would still look into topics like extensions, protocols, etc.

iOS programming is really straightforward, and with the advent of Swift and SwiftUI, it is really accessible. I kicked around an idea last year, and managed to get quite a decent prototype together very quickly. It doesn't have the best documentation for the language and software development kits, but there are loads of resources on the internet (Hacking with Swift is a good place to start).

Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 on is written in C)

I’m guessing you’ll have to work with the scopes in the resolver:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...

Better open an issue/request wiki edit at https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-implementations

I'm late to the party, but I want to say thank you for sharing this. It's inspiring to look at how much you've built and (hopefully) enjoyed the process of building! I'm loving everything -- your site, your language design, your docs, your builtin libraries, your dev tools. Beyond impressive. People like you are the ones who make HN one of my best places on the internet.

For context on where I'm coming from, about two weeks ago I picked up Crafting Interpreters [1] for fun. I'm finding your clear-yet-concise Compiler internals [2] to be particularly compelling reading, and jumping back and forth between those "how this all works" docs and the live example of this language you actually built do a WASM-compiled tree-blowing-in-the-wind animation is just... just wow. So freaking cool!

I also enjoyed reading the comment thread that inspired you to start on Yaksha and seeing how this project has a wholesome start as inspiration-by-programming-hero. I hope you recognize that a few years later you've now ascended from inspiree to inspirer. I also hope you're still having tons of fun building out Yaksha!

[1] https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

[2] https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html#compiler-int...

There are books which will talk you through the process. Crafting Interpreters is highly spoken of; I used Writing an Interpreter in Go, because I like Go. Then there's Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (the "Dragon Book"). This is considered heavy, but a classic, it's been around since '86.

I cannot recommend Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom enough, it covers a lot of the stuff you need to know, completely for free.

Crafting Interpreters is a fun primer on language design. It has a complete roadmap to build a fairly simple language, twice. There are some topics it won't touch on, like static type systems, but it provides a great introduction so that you can start tinkering and learn by doing.