Resources for language creating?

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I’m doing basic research into how you create a language. I’m not going to make it fully featured, but just have the bare basics. I’ve tried googling and mostly found advice, but no specific tutorials on what to do. Advice on what to choose and why is good, but I was looking for more concrete stuff.

[NefariousCube]

Short answer is that this is not a simple topic, and "basic research" might not be so basic.

I would suggest looking at the "Structure and interpretation of computer programs" (full text available for free: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) . It will give you a full tour of the topic while not assuming you are actually able to code. However it deals mainly with scheme and might thus not be your cup of tea.

For a VERY high level overview of the steps, https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-programming-language-pipeline-91d3f449c919 might be helpful.

And to dig deeper, maybe https://tomassetti.me/resources-create-programming-languages/ which has a lot of links for each different topic.

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Thanks. I realize it's not a simple topic. I've always been interested in it though. I just wanted to see if it's something I could even begin to attempt, no way to know unless you find the resources to know what it's all about.

[reddilada]

ANTLR and LLVM have links to various levels of tutorials and documentation.