[HN Gopher] Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"
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Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"
Author : mmm_grayons
Score : 139 points
Date : 2020-04-05 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| manaskarekar wrote:
| I love both books by Mr. Nystrom!
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| Thank you so much. They are very interesting and well presented.
| I hope munificent is able to pick yet another interesting topic
| after this one has concluded!
| munificent wrote:
| You're welcome!
| _hardwaregeek wrote:
| Wow. I was already impressed with the book, but after reading
| about what was happening behind the scenes, I'm truly in awe. I
| especially appreciate the work you put into making sure that the
| code snippets are accurate to the actual source code. Far too
| many books omit crucial steps or contain faulty code.
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| I also found it really heartening how you kept working through
| the tough times. We're all going through some challenging times
| right now and I have found that working on my projects (including
| a compiler!) has given me a small bit of satisfaction.
| aidos wrote:
| Holy smokes. I thought I couldn't love your output anymore than I
| already did, but this is something else. This little behind the
| scenes is... enlightening? inspiring? overwhelming?
|
| Thank you for everything you've been through to provide this
| wonderful gift to our community.
| burntsushi wrote:
| This is amazing! I remember when you started this, and have been
| somewhat following along since then. This is a masterpiece.
|
| Is there any way to pay you for this book? :-)
| blondin wrote:
| that's a fantastic read! thanks for sharing the process with us.
| really surprised that the code was complete the very first year
| and the real work was to put all that in writing, snippets, and
| illustrations.
| blackmagevivi9 wrote:
| Just wanted to say congratulations on finishing the last chapter
| of the book. It's a huge step and hope to see it printed later
| down the road. Stay safe.
| winrid wrote:
| Can't wait for this on Kindle.
| winrid wrote:
| Also, wow, I love the work you put into the illustrations.
| chrisaycock wrote:
| Thank you so much for this book! I used the early chapters to
| inform some decisions of mine when building my own programming
| language.
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| Congratulations on completing your work.
| benhoyt wrote:
| Awesome, thanks muchly, Bob! Reading and learning from "Crafting
| Interpreters" inspired four of my own fun projects (the first
| three on github.com/benhoyt): littlelang, my first little
| language interpreter, in Go; loxlox, a Lox interpreter written in
| Bob's Lox language; goawk, a full AWK interpreter written in Go;
| and my current unreleased project, a Turbo Pascal to Go converter
| with the goal of transpiling the reconstructed ZZT source to Go.
| evacchi wrote:
| I love this book and I've been suggesting it to my friends :)
| mmm_grayons wrote:
| Huge thanks to Mr. Nystrom for writing this. It's been very
| useful and I've learned a ton reading/working through it.
| airstrike wrote:
| > I used to do graphic design, and I have this weird tic where
| any time I see something that looks handwritten, I look for
| multiple instances of the same letter to see if they are
| different or if the design just used a handwriting font. It's
| almost always a handwriting font and I die a little inside to see
| the illusion evaporate.
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| Not a graphic designer, but I do the exact same thing and feel
| the exact same way... Happy to see I'm not crazy alone
|
| And his look like really neat hand-drawn diagrams! I certainly
| appreciate the degree of craftsmanship and care displayed
| throughout both books
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| As a someone put it on YouTube, the time-lapse video of the
| entire process is like ASMR for geeks
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1MsCXkPSA
| dhosek wrote:
| I once published a magazine on typography and someone asked me
| how I got the cool sketched-with-pencil look for the headline
| on one article. I sketched it with a pencil. (It was especially
| ironic in that the article was about an aggressively digital
| type foundry).
| iampims wrote:
| No pressure, but I can't wait to purchase the print version of
| this book!
| battery_cowboy wrote:
| > Writing this all out makes me sound like a crazy person. What
| the hell am I doing with my life? Or, more importantly, what
| could I have been doing instead of doing all that?
|
| That's why your book is so good! Singular focus on one subject
| like this either causes insanity or genius.
|
| Examples: redis, Linux, sqlite, dwarf fortress, etc. I (believe,
| not sure) all were started by a single person who was insane by
| any measure to start those projects, but they became something
| that people love.
|
| If this is insanity, please keep going insane!
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