[matthias509]

Another interesting rabbit hole to explore is the compiler. Back in the day I wrote a toy compiler for a college course and used this text book: "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools". a.ka. "The Dragon book", but I would look at some of the other books here like "Modern Operating Systems" before this.

[astrange]

The Dragon Book is literally a bad compiler book and you shouldn't read it. I don't know why people recommend it (not saying you did.) It explains things poorly and gets far too into the weeds on things that don't matter.

I recommend "Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide" and Muchnick's compilers book - though there's probably something better by now.

[tester756]

I feel like dragon book focuses too much on formal math

this is great:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25386756