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Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn Compiler Design
I have tried a few books and such and many are overly academic and not practical at all.
- azhenley 7y agoCrafting Interpreters https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html Writing an Interpreter in Go https://amzn.to/2PA5LEh https://amzn.to/2PA5LEh Let's Build a Compiler https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ Awesome list of compiler resources https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers
- ooooak 7y ago> Writing an Interpreter in Go https://amzn.to/2PA5LEh https://amzn.to/2PA5LEh +1
- CyberFonic 7y agoI cut my teeth on the "Dragon Book", but as you say once you get past the syntax analysis material it becomes increasingly opaque. Most books are written to be used as part of some CS curriculum. Only a tiny number of SEs go on to work on compilers. Personally I found the Nanopass approach much easier to understand because it breaks down the compilation process into lots of simple transformation steps: https://nanopass.org/ https://nanopass.org/