Resources to study Programming Languages

Basics

• Crafting Interpreters
• Mukul Rathi's articles
• Writing A Compiler In Go

Resource Collections

• Programming languages resources - Max Bernstein
• Programming Language Theory - Steven Shaw
• Oregon Programming Languages Summer SChool
• Programming Language Implementation Summer School.
• Resources on Compilers for Functional Languages
• Matt Might's articles
• jayconrod.com
• Great Works in Programming Languages - Collected by Benjamin C. Pierce
• Approachable PL Papers for Undergrads
• aalhour/awesome-compilers

Courses

• CS 6120: Advanced Compilers
• CS 6110: Advanced Programming Languages
• UCSD - Advanced Compiler Design
• IITD - Advanced Compiler Techniques
• UCB CS294-113: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes
• Virtual Machine Summer School 2016

Compiler Optimisation

• A Catalogue of Optimising Transforms
• Intel Microcode
• Fabian Giesen
• Combining Analyses, Combining Optimizations

Garbage Collection

• Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
• The Journey of Go's Garbage Collector
• A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector
• Generational GC - Mono
• Understanding Garbage Collection in JavaScriptCore
• Trash talk: the Orinoco garbage collector
• Baby’s First Garbage Collector

• Incremental GCs

  • Train GC
  • Treadmill GC

Single Static Assignment

• Simple and Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form
• Efficiently computing static single assignment form and the control dependence graph
• CMU - cs6120 - SSA
• SSABook

Compile-time Memory Management

• compile time memory management models - r/programminglanguages
• Linear Types - c2
• Unique Type - c2
• Linear Type Systems - CS 6110
• Substructural Type Systems - CS 152
• Lobster's Memory Management
• Zero-Cost Borrowing with Vale Regions
• Generational References - Vale
• Ownership and Lifetimes - Rustnomicon
• Region-based memory management
• Uniqueness Type
• Practical Affine Types
• Linear Regions Are All You Need
• A Step-Indexed Model of Substructural State
• Monadic Regions
• Ownership Types for Safe Region-Based Memory Management in Real-Time Java
• ASAP: As Static As Possible memory management
• Ownership You Can Count On: A Hybrid Approach to Safe Explicit Memory Management
• Adoption and Focus: Practical Linear Types for Imperative Programming
• Memory safety without runtime checks or garbage collection
• Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse
• Type Systems for Memory Safety

Fearless Concurrency

• A Simple Capability-Based Dynamic Language Design For Data Race-Freedom
• A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency

Functional

• Compiling a Functional Language Using C++
• Compiling Functional Languages - chalmers
• An Introduction to Combinator Compilers and Graph Reduction Machines
• Implementing functional languages: a tutorial
• Making a Fast Curry: Push/Enter vs. Eval/Apply

• GHC

  • Low-level Haskell: An Interactive Tour Through the STG
  • 2023 GHC Contributor's Workshop
  • @lexi_lambda: The GHC optimization pipeline

JIT

• spencertipping/jit-tutorial
• Adventures in JIT compilation
• Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
• Speculation in JavaScriptCore
• TigerShrimp: An Understandable Tracing JIT Compiler
• wdv4758h/awesome-jit
• A primer on code generation in Cranelift
• How JIT Compilers are Implemented and Fast
• The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT - Cliff Click
• A JVM Does That??? by Dr Cliff Click

Type Systems / Effects

• Hindley-Milner
• Ahnfelt/type-inference-by-example
• Typing Haskell in Haskell
• jozefg/learn-tt
• Notes on Hindley-Milner polymorphism
• CMU - Types and Programming Languages Schedule
• yallop/effects-bibliography