# Hale

> Hale is a general-purpose programming language built on one primitive — the
> locus. It offers memory safety without a garbage collector or a borrow checker
> (regions are freed when a locus dissolves), Erlang-style supervision, a
> transport-agnostic bus, and compile-time structural verification. Its surface
> (ASCII-only, names not symbols, explicit commitments, a small pattern catalog)
> is designed to be written fluently by both humans and LLMs.

## Start here

- [Why Hale](https://hale-lang.org/why): the case for the language.
- [The guide](https://hale-lang.org/docs): a level-by-level tour, from scripts to systems.
- [Install](https://hale-lang.org/docs/getting-started/install): get the toolchain.

## For agents and LLMs

- [Tooling](https://hale-lang.org/tooling): LSP, MCP server, context packs, machine-readable docs.
- [Context pack](https://hale-lang.org/hale-context.txt): single-file spec + styleguide + gotchas, tuned for context windows.
- [llms-full.txt](https://hale-lang.org/llms-full.txt): the concatenated documentation corpus.

## Ecosystem

- [pond packages](https://hale-lang.org/packages): the "non-std stdlib".
- [Playground](https://hale-lang.org/playground): edit, check, run in the browser.