Dylan Beattie is the inventor of the Rockstar esoteric programming language - a project that started out as a joke and turned into a real language, complete with native interpreters for Windows, Linux, macOS, and a web assembly version you'll find running at codewithrockstar.com

In this workshop, Dylan will teach you how to design and build your own programming language using .NET, C#, and a genuinely wonderful thing called a parsing expression grammar. You'll learn how to build up your language in stable increments, adding features to the grammar, the parser, and the interpreter. You’ll learn how to implement function calls, flow control and recursion, and what’s actually happening “under the hood” to control features like variable scope and operator precedence. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a working interpreter built in .NET, you’ll have a rich understanding of exactly how parsers and interpreters work, and you'll never look at compiler error messages the same way again.