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Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
I wish people would start with Nystrom's https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ and avoid the dragon etc unless they really, really need it. Almost everything I have learnt about compiler/vm development, I have done so by reading random blogs and articles on various aspects and small tutorials on writing parsers and vms.
Even stuff like Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler was more useful to me than all these books that do lexical analysis using regular expressions. I have written lexers and parsers hundreds of times for all kinds of DSLs and config and not once have I used regular expressions to scan the text.
- Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
- Markdown Is Holding You Back
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Wren: A classy little scripting language
[An optional challenge](https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/4a84...) gives an implementation of arrays for jlox at least.
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Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
Cool! I did not know about that book. Added to [1]. :-)
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1: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/92...
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Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc
> If you’ve been relying on Markdown and occasionally fighting its quirks, AsciiDoc might be the structured, fully-featured alternative you didn’t know you needed.
No, I'm afraid it's the format I know I don't need. At least not for the kind of things I usually use markdown for.
Readme files, technical documentation, moderately complex websites with templating and rendering engines - markdown works just fine. Sometimes with a custom `|||warning\n...\n|||\n` thrown in to render something in a box with a red border.
I get that there's a market in the space occupied by TeX, Typst (underrated IMHO), and possibly MS Word or Quark Express (for non-techies). Libreoffice is great in theory but, again IMHO, "eh" in practice. That market is generating book-length documents with all the cross-references and other features that needs.
That said, Robert Nystrom of "Crafting Interpreters" managed this just fine with markdown and a few custom scripts: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft... , https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/mast... . This is how those famous 10x writers/programmers work, I guess.
Asciidoc is Markdown's big brother? I'll carry on playing with the little brother, thank you very much.
Also the whole page is an ad for their own editor tool. $9.99 per month so you don't need to use your own editor and unintuitive tools like (gasp!) the terminal.
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Show HN: RasperDucky, an Implementation of DuckyScript3 for Raspberry Pico
[3]: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters
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Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers
The best resource for any amateur compiler writer is Bob Noystrom's Crafting Interpreters:
https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
It is well paced, well illustrated, and demonstrates a very simple recursive descent parser, avoiding all the junk typically foisted on students.
I cannot recommend the book highly enough, I use it in my compilers class.
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Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
The license is here:
https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
Though now that I look at it, I apparently completely forgot to specify how the images should be licensed. Oops.
It's not a big deal and I really appreciate you reading and writing about the book, but I would prefer to not have the images reused without attribution.
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