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Ask HN: Books Like Building Git?

61 points by wanderlust123 ↗ HN
Hi all,

I am interested in books that teach the ins and outs of building complex software systems from scratch.

One such delightful book is “Building Git” by James Coglan. It builds a complex software from scratch allowing the user to learn by building.

What other books would be similar to the above?

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barracutha
Builder Book https://builderbook.org/
pull_my_finger
$99 is crazy expensive for a book about a topic that's heavily covered and widely available for free online or usually at most $25 in book form.
tima101
~1500 people disagree with you and some of them bought both books ($99 and $250).

Yes, a lot of online tutorial and snippets. No argument here. Not a lot of material to build a complete project. The value is in "Fractured" vs "Whole" knowledge tree.

tra3
There was a highly recommended book where you followed along with cpu or architecture design and then bootstrapped a compiler. I can’t find it now. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?