I’ll be bookmarking this for use in the future. I teach a programming languages course so I’ve looked at a number of these texts, and this seems like a good new

I’ll be bookmarking this for use in the future. I teach a programming languages course so I’ve looked at a number of these texts, and this seems like a good new one but I have to say I don’t see much that differentiates it from other recent texts out there. It seems well written and organized, but what’s new? I would say the best part about this book is the author made it freely available. But if I had to choose a newish compilers book I’d choose Crafting Interpreters, which is also available for free. One thing that I don’t like so much is the word “design” in the title, as there’s really not much content in the book on how to design a language; most of it is devoted to implementing an already designed language. I’m not sure anyone who learns from this book would be able to design a language unlike C.