Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

• Episode: Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom
• Website: CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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• Duration: 00:56:06
• Published: 2019-05-31 11:00

Bob Nystrom is the author of Crafting Interpreters. I speak with Nystrom about building a programming language and an interpreter implementation for it. We talk about parsing, the difference between compiler and interpreters and a lot more.

If you are wondering why many languages have hand-rolled parser implementations yet much work on build language implementations focuses on parser and tokenizer generators then Bob's insights will be eye-opening. Also, if you've ever used regexes to pull strings apart into structured data, and I sure have, then Bob's perspective on the simplicity of hand-rolled parsers will certainly open up some new possibilities for you.

Links:

http://craftinginterpreters.com/
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/