Marianne Writes a Programming Language

Marianne Bellotti

Marianne Bellotti wants to understand how the people who design programming languages do what they do, so she's jumping right in and giving it a shot by writing her own language. Follow along as she struggles to understand parsers, lexers, grammars, gets philosophical about the nature of error handling and gets in way over her head too easily and too often.

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Marianne Writes a Programming Language

Episodes (13)

Apr 14, 2021 Programs Split Over Multiple Files (featuring Troels Henriksen)
Apr 7, 2021 Code Generation (featuring Tikhon Jelvis)
Mar 31, 2021 Uncertain Types part 2 (featuring Barak Michener and Eric Schles)

Marianne Writes a Programming Language

Apr 14, 2021
25¼ minutes
20 MB

When thinking about how to create a language where little models can be combined into bigger more complex system models, Marianne struggles to understand why not to take the completely straight forward approach of importing files. While searching for a good explanation she comes across the official blog of Futhark and decides to interview its lead on their design decisions.

Marianne Writes a Programming Language

Programs Split Over Multiple Files (featuring Troels Henriksen)

Marianne Bellotti

00:00 -25:22