Code vs Crafting Interpreters: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Computers, Computer science
Code
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And…
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Crafting Interpreters
Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying…
The verdict
- Readers rate Code highest: Code 4.4 · Crafting Interpreters 4.0.
- Code is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 13 for Crafting Interpreters.
- Code has the widest readership — 10861 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Code | Crafting Interpreters | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.4 (10861) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.6 (8) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (6) | — |
Reception
| Code | Crafting Interpreters | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 10861 | 8 |
| Editions | 7 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 32373 | — |
| Pages | 393 | 752 |