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Does Crafting Interpreters require preexisting C knowledge? I'm curious to follow the book, but my experience with X is beginner level at best.
> I would often write huge refactorings thinking that they would be a solution to a borrow checker error, just to get another one at the end of the refactoring. Yeah this can often be a problem because the borrow checker doesn't kick in until the refactoring is done and no other errors are left.
Crafting interpreters is the best compiler/interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in Java" and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.
Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me?
I wasn't really expecting the scanner/lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn't keep going after implementing functions. I downloaded someone else's JsLox implementation and was planning on just skipping to the VM part of the book and hopefully would find it more engaging.
I also am a pretty jr developer. I have about 5 years experience since I started learning to code so I just may not "get" it yet. But I found writing the interpreter to be incredibly boring.
Crafting interpreters is the best compiler/interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in Java" and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.
I have a question about the book. I haven't been able to ask anyone else because I don't know anyone else who is working through the book. Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me? I wasn't really expecting the scanner/lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn't keep going after implementing functions. I downl…
Crafting Interpreters, IMHO, is the most accessible book on the subject. If you didn't find the implementation of the first part exciting, I would suggest to probably ignore the book code after reading the text and implement it yourself, and later compare with the book implementation. I encountered several pleasent surprises using this approach.
Crafting interpreters is the best compiler/interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in Java" and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.
I have a question about the book. I haven't been able to ask anyone else because I don't know anyone else who is working through the book. Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me? I wasn't really expecting the scanner/lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn't keep going after implementing functions. I downl…
A downside of Rust for applications like virtual machines is that it doesn't have a goto statement. Ideally, both a labelled and a computed goto would be available in the language.
Not only does it not have computed goto (almost no languages do, tbh), it also doesn't have guaranteed tall-call elimination or allow you to use the GHC calling convention. Which are more egregious, imo.
A downside of Rust for applications like virtual machines is that it doesn't have a goto statement. Ideally, both a labelled and a computed goto would be available in the language.
A downside of Rust for applications like virtual machines is that it doesn't have a goto statement. Ideally, both a labelled and a computed goto would be available in the language.
Crafting interpreters is the best compiler/interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in Java" and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.
I have a question about the book. I haven't been able to ask anyone else because I don't know anyone else who is working through the book. Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me? I wasn't really expecting the scanner/lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn't keep going after implementing functions. I downl…