On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:24:01 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly
wrote:
Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a
little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which
books/resources do you recommend to start out?
You don't need to read books to write a compiler, a bit of
theory from "here or there" will be enough, particularly if you
start from scratch, there's almost no chance that you ever
touch the more edgy things (something like theory of types
maybe ).
A few ones written in D (sorted by URL length):
- https://github.com/dlang/dmd
- https://github.com/BBasile/yatol
- https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs
- https://github.com/VoltLang/Volta
- https://github.com/beast-lang/beast-dragon
Otherwise a subreddit that's not been quoted yet:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/ and their
homepage listing a few projects from people who have started
"the journey": http://www.proglangdesign.net/
Dr Assembly what i mean can be illustrated by this:
You see this https://github.com/matijapretnar/eff ?
http://www.eff-lang.org/ ?
People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will
program your own programming language are lying.
