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Build Your Own Programming Language
A practical guide to designing and implementing a programming language from scratch: lexers, parsers, ASTs, and interpreters.
The secret isn't complexity. It's simplicity.
Most developers think building a programming language is impossibly complex. This book breaks language design into clear, practical steps, so you don't just ship a toy language, you understand how programming languages work at their core.
Who this book is for
Software Developers
Experienced programmers who want to understand how languages work under the hood.
CS Students
Students studying compilers, interpreters, or programming language theory.
Builders & Founders
People who want to create domain-specific languages or custom scripting tools.
What you'll learn
- •Language design fundamentals: syntax, semantics, and type systems
- •Lexical analysis and parsing with recursive descent
- •Interpreter implementation for variables, functions, and control flow
- •Modern features inspired by TypeScript, Rust, and Python
- •Error handling and meaningful diagnostics
- •Performance ideas from bytecode to runtime tradeoffs
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