algs4 VS Crafting Interpreters

Accompanying resources for the Sedgewick and Wayne Algorithms book at https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/. There are quite a number of examples and exercises for you to go through that lean more towards implementation. I usually recommend to at least go through CLRS or your lecture notes before looking at this.

I agreed. CLRS is not beginner friendly and really hard to follow if the reader does not have some background prior to reading the book. Algorithms by Sedgewick is much better, his course on Coursera (although the implementation is in Java) is much more intuitive. Programming Abstraction in C++ is also pretty good.

Algorithms 4th Edition

Try reading this book or any other source available to you.

I recommend Sedgewick’s course and book if you’re serious about it.

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.