While I was working on yqsh, I became curious how shells implement a scripting language, and fell down a rabbithole of learning about programming languages, compilers, and interpreters. This led me to find Robert Nystrom’s Crafting Interpreters🔗, a wonderful book that guides the reader through creating a tree-walk interpreter and later a full bytecode virtual machine. I’m currently working through the first half of the book, the tree-walk interpreter in Java.