Resources

Books

• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

  • Excellent, free online book: craftinginterpreters.com
  • Covers tree-walking interpreters and bytecode VMs

• Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball

  • Practical, hands-on approach

• Engineering a Compiler by Cooper & Torczon

  • Comprehensive academic textbook

Rust Resources

• The Rust Programming Language (“The Book”)

  • doc.rust-lang.org/book

• Rust by Example

  • doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example

Tools Used

• pest - PEG parser generator for Rust

  • pest.rs
  • docs.rs/pest

• inkwell - Safe LLVM wrapper for Rust

  • github.com/TheDan64/inkwell

• LLVM - Compiler infrastructure

  • llvm.org
  • llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html - LLVM IR reference

Academic Papers

• A Nanopass Framework for Compiler Education - Sarkar, Waddell, Dybvig
• Linear Scan Register Allocation - Poletto, Sarkar
• Simple and Efficient Construction of SSA Form - Braun et al.

Source Code

All code for this book:

• github.com/ehsanmok/create-your-own-lang-with-rust

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