E18: Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does?
Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!).
Shownotes
Shownotes
- Writing an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book):
- Writing a Compiler in Go (Thorsten's book)
- The Dragon Book (compilers)
- Thorsten's newsletter:
- Thorsten's website
- Zed.dev
- Sourcegraph
Creators and Guests
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Host
Oz Nova
Learn computer science with me: async via https://t.co/7DJHcrvyg1 or live via https://t.co/3txqrpBkwi. Or, https://t.co/pDTuKaskQZ
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Guest
Thorsten Ball
Author of https://t.co/arW0hnVET0 and https://t.co/RN9xXOzhON. Working @zeddotdev. Ex-@sourcegraph. Programming where the rubber hits the road.
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