Thorsten Ball and Tim Raymond join Mat Ryer and Mark Bates to talk about compilers and interpreters. What are the roles of compilers and interpreters? What do they do? The how and why of writing a compiler in Go. We also talk about Thorsten’s books “Writing an Interpreter in Go” and “Writing a Compiler in Go.”

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Featuring:

• Thorsten Ball – Website, GitHub, X
• Tim Raymond – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X

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