Learning Resources

You'll probably need to know a little about compilers and/or type systems to be effective working on mypy internals. In particular, understanding ASTs, parsers and symbol tables would be useful, but code generation and various optimizations less so.

Books

Introductory texts:

• The Dragon Book
• Modern Compiler Implementation in Java/C (Appel)

More advanced books:

• Types and Programming Languages (Pierce)
  • This is heavier on theory