Ask HN: Books Like Building Git?

61 points·wanderlust123··9 comments

Hi all,

I am interested in books that teach the ins and outs of building complex software systems from scratch.

One such delightful book is “Building Git” by James Coglan. It builds a complex software from scratch allowing the user to learn by building.

What other books would be similar to the above?

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Crafting Interpreters - https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Writing an interpreter in Go -https://interpreterbook.com/

There was a highly recommended book where you followed along with cpu or architecture design and then bootstrapped a compiler. I can’t find it now. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Ruby Under a Microscope - https://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope

You may find this repo useful: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Builder Book https://builderbook.org/

$99 is crazy expensive for a book about a topic that's heavily covered and widely available for free online or usually at most $25 in book form.

~1500 people disagree with you and some of them bought both books ($99 and $250).

Yes, a lot of online tutorial and snippets. No argument here. Not a lot of material to build a complete project. The value is in "Fractured" vs "Whole" knowledge tree.

game development and graphics [1]

[1] https://pikuma.com/courses

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