> 20-30 year-old textbooks I assume you're talking about something like "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML"? That book is still a good starting point, and o

> 20-30 year-old textbooks I assume you're talking about something like "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML"? That book is still a good starting point, and once you get a basic implementation going you'll be in a good position to start learning about and implementing more advanced features. You'll end up teaching yourself as you figure out how to add features to your own codebase. edit: fix title