Bob Nystrom (Dart) has finally completed his book ‘Crafting Interpreters’. I think it’s a great book, it covers all the basis and some more. What do you think?
Here is a blog post on the process of writing this book, and of course, my suggestion is to take a look at the book itself.
Hello, Edoardo.
I’ve received the email this morning about that, and I redistributed the information among my colleagues. I like the story he tells about how he created the book.
I’ve peeked at it a few times but can’t get myself to read a long text online, so I put myself on the mailing list for a notification when the paper version comes out 
I would prefer “crafting compilers” though, but it will have to do. As a non-academic, most literature out there costs a lot of energy to read, and this one seems nicer.
it really is nicely typeset, if you have a tablet it will look good enough, although I agree on preferring paper in general
Don’t be misled by the title, although it does not cover lower-level compilation targets, the second part of the book describes a bytecode interpreter. For all intents and purposes, emitting bytecode ~= compiling
Wow, thanks, the story about the book is really inspiring and moving and I’m sure the book is great, I will check it out!
I followed the book from when it started until it finished. Bob is a great author. I also have his Game Design Parterns book which have helped me with software architecture decisions.
I recommend Crafting Interpreters to anyone interested in writing their own Virtual machines.
It may interest you that Bob Nystrom is also the author of Wren programming language.
The printed edition is out on Amazon (>650 pages)
There is a recent article about the book 640 Pages in 15 Months – journal.stuffwithstuff.com It is the continuation of the article mentioned in the first message of this thread.
I’ll only start reading it after I’ve finished mine. The danger of either wanting to rewrite my book completely, or just burn it altogether is too high otherwise…
I just bought both his books, but I understand exactly what you mean.