This repository contains the codes and the contents for createlang.rs
The book arises from my frustration of not finding modern, clear and concise teaching materials that are readily accessible to beginners like me who wants to learn a bit on how to create their own programming language.
The following are my guidelines
"If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work" 1
"If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it" 2
Make sure you have
- Rust installed
- Cloned this repository (follow the instructions in each chapter)
- LLVM v10.0 installed (Debina/Ubuntu or macOS) to run and test locally
cargo test --tests
To build the book locally, navigate to the book
subdirectory and follow the instructions in mdbook.
- Introduction
- Crash course on Computing
- Calculator language
- Grammar, lexer and parser
- AST and interpreter
- JIT with LLVM
- Basic
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function example - AST traversal patterns
- Basic
- Exercises
- VM, bytecode and interpreter
- REPL
- Jeslang
- Static typing
- Type inference
- ...
- Object system and OOP
- Functional lang
- (TENTATIVE) Module system and packaging
- (TENTATIVE) Mini-standard library
- Content resources
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