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English Edition by Robert Nystrom (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 out of 5 stars (690)
Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam.

That fearsome reputation belies a field that is rich with useful techniques and not so difficult as some of its practitioners might have you believe. A better understanding of how programming languages are built will make you a stronger software engineer and teach you concepts and data structures you'll use the rest of your coding days. You might even have fun.

This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused.

Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09BCCVLCL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Genever Benning
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 27, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 17.7 MB
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  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0990582953
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  • Amazon Bestseller: #112,346 in Foreign Language Books (See Top 100 in Foreign Language Books)
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Robert Nystrom has programmed professionally for twenty years, about half of which is in games. During his eight years at Electronic Arts, he worked on behemoths like Madden and smaller titles like Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. He's shipped games on the PC, GameCube, PS2, XBox, X360, and DS, but is most proud of the tools and shared libraries he created for others to build on. He loves seeing usable, beautiful code magnify the creative ability of others.

Robert lives with his wife and two daughters in Seattle where you are most likely to find him cooking for his friends and plying them with good beer.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars a great buy
    Reviewed in India on February 11, 2026
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    very good book... well built... very well printed.
    Although, the book is available online, it is good to have a paper book.
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    Reviewed in India on February 11, 2026
    very good book... well built... very well printed.
    Although, the book is available online, it is good to have a paper book.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Easy, Demystifying
    Reviewed in Italy on January 24, 2025
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    It makes all topics easy to digest. It's so satisfying to see the interpreter slowly become more powerful. You will go through many interesting cs topics, like closures and garbage collectors. Many chapters ends with additional notes that analyze the implementation choice between different real languages.
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  • Raul Costa Junior
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
    Reviewed in Germany on January 10, 2026
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    Teaches about compilers, interpreters and language runtime in a hands-on, pragmatic and accessible way. Great reading!
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  • Huibert Aalbers
    5.0 out of 5 stars De lo mejor que he leído con respecto a intérpretes/compiladores
    Reviewed in Mexico on October 22, 2021
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    Si alguna vez quisiste saber cómo escribir un intérprete de un lenguaje de programación de (relativamente) alto nivel, este es un gran libro. El autor empieza definiendo el lenguaje que quiere implementar (Lox) y luego desarrollo dos intérpretes para este lenguaje, uno en Java (para entender las bases) y luego otro mucho más rápido en C, pero también más complejo, en C.

    Se trata de un libro ameno, escrito por un experto que conoce el tema a fondo y que te permitirá aprender todos los conceptos fundamentales. ¡Altamente recomendado!
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  • Maurice Szmurlo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un must have pour tous ceux qui sont intéressés pas des interpréteurs ou des compilateurs et des VM
    Reviewed in France on December 26, 2024
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    Excellent. Pour tous les niveau (ok, il faut quand même savoir développer à la base). Absolument limpide. Couvre la création d'un interprète, d'une machine virtuelle pour exécuter du byte code et le compilateur pour générer ce byte code. Un vrai bijou
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