Any tips on how to create a BEAM language?

[AstonJ]

There are quite a few books on complier design, https://craftinginterpreters.com has been mentioned a few times on EF by @linusdm. Was also mentioned by @LincolnBryant here:

What Erlang/BEAM related stuff are you doing?

over the summer I wrote a tree-walking interpreter that implements a subset of Godot’s built-in scripting language, GDScript. It’s a whitespace-significant imperative language, so implementing that in Erlang was challenging but also really fun! I have never implemented a programming language before, so I spent a lot of time staring at the Luerl source code, the documentation for leex and yecc, and the book Crafting Interpreters. overall I’m pretty happy with it, but the interface is rather ba…

It’s also #1 in Amazon’s Best Sellers in Compiler Design list:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3970