This book is intended to be a cover to cover job. I tackled it about 2 or 3 chapters at a time while building alongside. But after the midway point where it swa

This book is intended to be a cover to cover job. I tackled it about 2 or 3 chapters at a time while building alongside. But after the midway point where it swaps to a C based byte code compiler I just read it instead. There are books like the dragon book which cover PL design in a more reference book style. But I don’t recommend them. If you’re looking for a lighter alternative then “writing an Interpreter in Go” is worth a look. Also Bob Nystrum has some other good material on his blog, and a chapter in game programming patterns about PL stuff.