Crafting Interpreters is available in print

Post by ric2b » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 1:41 AM UTC

cxr wrote: post #82

intrepidhero wrote: post #54

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Thanks for writing about your process! I enjoyed it almost as much as Crafting Interpreters, which is to say, quite a lot. And you absolutely should be proud of your PDF->PNG->Highlight diffs script. As someone who has kept excel files and PDFs in version control I knew exactly the feeling you were talking about. I got to that part and exclaimed out loud, "Damn cool!"

> As someone who has kept excel files and PDFs in version control Hot tip for handling office file formats or anything that uses a ZIP container: just unzip them and commit that to the repo. It won't fix the issue mentioned of the authoring tool making seemingly arbitrary and unnecessary changes, nor will it give you nifty visual diffs, but it's better than shuffling binary blobs through your version control tools.

Post by geekraver » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #96

munificent wrote: post #2

Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-15...

Can you please point out the differences compared to other books for the same topic? Thanks!

Post by kelnos » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

divs1210 wrote: post #110

kelnos wrote: post #109

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Thank you so much for all your work on this! I ran through the first part (interpreter in Java, which I ended up doing in Scala for fun) a few years ago, and so much about this sort of thing was demystified for me. I used to think building parsers, tokenizers, AST builders, and interpreters was some sort of unapproachable black magic, but now I realize it's not actually that difficult. I started working on the second…

You might find this blog post interesting: https://ceronman.com/2021/07/22/my-experience-crafting-an-in...

Post by hadjian » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

Post by cxr » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 1:31 AM UTC

ric2b wrote: post #112

cxr wrote: post #82

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> As someone who has kept excel files and PDFs in version control Hot tip for handling office file formats or anything that uses a ZIP container: just unzip them and commit that to the repo. It won't fix the issue mentioned of the authoring tool making seemingly arbitrary and unnecessary changes, nor will it give you nifty visual diffs, but it's better than shuffling binary blobs through your version control tools.

AFAIK that won't save space in git, in fact it will probably use more due to the lack of compression and the fact that git commits aren't diffs, they're just commonly displayed as if they are.