(Anchor.fm link)

Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learning compilers is necessarily like an old-style apprenticeship, and a near-the-metal view of complex algorithms for computation.

• Chris’s Twitter
• TruffleRuby
• Rich Programmer Food, an essay by Steve Yegge
• The Dragon Book by Aho, Sethi and Ullman
• Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom
• Writing an Interpreter in Go / Writing a Compiler in Go, both by Thorsten Ball
• GraalVM, a VM and compiler suite
• Linear Scan algorithm for Register Allocation
• Recursive Descent parsers
• Parsing Expression Grammar
• Context-Free Languages
• Mersey Burns app
• mruby
• Ruby ISO Standard document
• Ruby C extensions
• rubybib.org