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What, How and Why?

Welcome to "What, How, and Why?"—a blog series that demystifies tech jargon, architectures, and concepts. We answer three key questions: What is it? How does it work? Why do we need it? Get simple explanations and impactful insights!

Articles in this series

Writing an Interpreter from Scratch

Oct 9, 20246 min read

Interpreters are the backbone of many programming languages, converting code into actions line by line. In this article, we'll build a simple...

Building a Parser: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Constructing an AST-Based Parser

Oct 8, 20246 min read

In our previous article, we built a lexer that converts code into tokens, breaking down the input into meaningful pieces. Now, the next exciting step...

Building a Parser: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Constructing an AST-Based Parser

Understanding How Parsers Work : Writing My Own Programming Language

Oct 3, 20246 min read

So, you’ve built a lexer that can break down source code into meaningful tokens—things like keywords, operators, and symbols. But what's next? While...

Understanding How Parsers Work : Writing My Own Programming Language

Building My Own Programming Language: Day 02

Sep 20, 202410 min read

The code for this tutorial can be found here In our previous blog post, we tried to understand the basic fundamentals behind building our own...

Building My Own Programming Language: Day 02

Building My Own Programming Language: Day 01

Sep 12, 20243 min read

I've always wondered how computers understand language. How do words and symbols turn into 0s and 1s, and then back into something we can read? The...

Building My Own Programming Language: Day 01

WTF is Forward and Reverse Proxy

Sep 4, 20245 min read

Forward and reverse proxies—sounds like some kind of secret agents from a spy movie, right? Well, in the tech world, they might as well be! These...