plugins VS BuildYourOwnLisp

Plugins

You can ease your pain by using plugins. Some are already built for the most common problems (check them out in the official Serverless Plugins Github repo), but there are always some project-specific issues that plugins can help you resolve. Fortunately, writing a plugin for the Serverless Framework is easier than you might think.

Before getting started, you need to install the plugin. This is hosted on the Serverless Plugins registry, so you can install this via the plugin install command which is introduced since v1.22.0.

service: functions useDotenv: true provider: name: openwhisk functions: autoai: handler: handler.autoai parameters: api_key: ${env:api_key} events: - http: POST /autoai # extend the framework using plugins listed here: # https://github.com/serverless/plugins plugins: - serverless-openwhisk - serverless-dotenv-plugin

The plugins are built by the Serverless community. Anyone can create a plugin. The Serverless Framework company lists plugins, but only a subset are "approved." This means we should be cognizant of what we are using.

Build Your Own Lisp

Create your own meta-circular evaluator: https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

I don't know about C++ but there is this incredible course on C by learning to build your own Lisp. https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

I find the best way to learn technical topics is to build a simplified version of the thing. The trick is to understand the relationship between the high level components without getting lost in the details. This high level understanding then helps inform you when you drill down into specifics.

I think this book is a shining example of that philosophy: https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/. In the book, you implement an extremely bare-bones version of lisp, but it has been invaluable in my career. I found I was able to understand nuanced language features much more quickly because I have a clear model of how programming languages are decomposed into their components.

If you still want to produce a toy project in C I would suggest to build your own LISP ;-)

If you're after a lisp, MAL on Github (By kanaka) and https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ are good.

Build your own Lisp is cool but offloads the language grammar and the parsing to the author's mpc library, this is already way overkill for what I'd like to do.

Writing a Lisp - https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

Lisps are also a good language if you want to know how languages work. They are very easy to make an interpreter for. There are good tutorials for that at https://github.com/kanaka/mal and https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/.

Anyone have any input on:

https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

It's been in my bookmarks for a long time but I've never really had time to really start it. The "who is this for" page say:

"This book is for anyone wanting to learn C, or who has once wondered how to build their own programming language.".

Well, I'm fairly competent in C (but not great) but would like to get a glimpse of what it's like to build my own language. Is it worth the time?