Crafting Interpreters VS project-based-tutorials-in-c

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.

My experience with "C Primer Plus" was a good one I found it very nicely explained, and it's wordy as it explains everything to the details, and with every example, there is a new programming idea. I don't know your studying technique but I suggest you implement every example by yourself. Nevertheless, you could give CS50 a try, it's without saying one of the best introductory courses, and also take a look at "Learn C the hard way" there are also videos accompanied by the book, which is pretty good in my opinion since you don't want something "wordy". And pick a project it will help you with your learning journey as learning without implementation is just half learning. - Project based learning - Project-based tutorials in C - Build your own X

Project based tutorials in C. This is awesome.

For those of you that so not know it already, there is a collection of C projects (ongoing and finished) by rby90 on GitHub

Usually you fit the library to the project, not the project to the library. Just pick something that interests you, maybe even re-do a C++ project in C instead. If you really need ideas, here is a list that can help you.

Projects

I recommend you have a look through this list for inspiration : https://github.com/rby90/project-based-tutorials-in-c