Thorsten Ball
Co-founder and co-creator of Amp; author of Writing An Interpreter In Go.
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- Thorsten Ball is a software engineer and writer.
- He is a co-founder and co-creator of Amp.
- He worked at Sourcegraph for five years, then at Zed, then at Sourcegraph again.
- He self-published two books on building a programming language in Go and writes the weekly newsletter Register Spill.
Key facts
- Amp
- Co-founder and co-creator1
- Career
- Five years at Sourcegraph, then Zed, then back at Sourcegraph1
- Books
- Writing An Interpreter In Go (November 2016) and its sequel Writing A Compiler In Go (July 2018), both self-published2
- Register Spill
- Weekly newsletter on Substack; its Joy & Curiosity #100 came out on 20 September 20261
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