Understanding compilers is helpful to grow your engineering...

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Minko Gechev@mgechev
19 views Apr 21, 2026 ~1 min read
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Understanding compilers is helpful to grow your engineering knowledge.

Here's a thread to help you get started 🧵👇
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Learn the very basics by building a compiler & interpreter on 25 lines of JavaScript 🔥

blog.mgechev.com/2017/09/16/dev…
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"Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter" is a fantastic blog series by @rspivak

ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/
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Parsing approaches tratt.net/laurie/blog/en…
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An introduction to type systems by building a simply typed lambda calculus

blog.mgechev.com/2017/08/05/typ…
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Compiler development classic and one of the best books about programming languages I've read

amazon.com/Compilers-Prin…
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"Types and Programming Languages" - denser book about type theory from a more mathematical perspective. Lots of exciting topics such as lambda calculus and completeness of programs 🔥

amazon.com/Types-Programm…
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