How to Build an Interpreter in 25 Minutes or Less

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A live walkthrough building a tiny programming-language interpreter in JavaScript, showing concrete steps and code to go from source to execution in about 25 minutes. After the demo, the talk maps those same interpreter concepts to how JavaScript itself is implemented (SpiderMonkey/Mozilla) to illustrate practical relevance for developers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:55Language basics
3. 5:57Statements and expressions
4. 12:23Subtraction syntax
5. 15:55SpiderMonkey internals
6. 16:30Final demo

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