Compilers are broad enough that when someone recommends a "compiler book", it's rarely exactly the slice you wanted.

So this made me do a runnable cheat sheet for Crafting Interpreters. I keep parsing demonstrative, and the AST is a little more Lisp-y than the book's.

Disclaimer: it's meant to convey the essence of what you'll learn, it is NOT by any means a replacement for the book. I'd also describe the book as more of an experience (including some things Nystrom clearly enjoyed, like the visitor pattern) than a compilers manual. If anyone's interested, I can do a separate visitor-pattern cheat sheet too, also in Python.

I turned it into a 'public-facing artifact' from private scripts with an AI agent.

[0] https://ouatu.ro/blog/crafting-interpreters-cheat-sheet/

Crafting Interpreters is great, I wish it had a companion book that covered:

  - types and typing
  - optimization passes
  - object files, executables, libraries and linking

Incredible book for self guided learning!

Awesome course! finished it while i was doing my final CS year because I had to wait on a bunch of classes (and frankly had no one to talk to before classes). I haven't tried nanopass, but there's other links that work, so I'll give it a go.

It was saved: https://github.com/asalber/books/blob/master/A%20Nanopass%20...