Learn Vesta#

This is a path, not a reference. The chapters are meant to be read in order: each one assumes the previous, and each ends with code you can run.

If what you need is the answer to one specific question, that lives in the documentation, which assumes nothing and is exhaustive.

Where to start#

If you have never built Vesta, start by installing it and carry on with hello world. It takes ten minutes.

If you already have it running and you come from C, C++ or Rust, the three modes covers the first thing that surprises people: that the same source runs on a virtual machine, compiles while it runs, or becomes a native binary with no runtime at all.

The whole path#

The sidebar holds the full index. It is written from less to more: syntax first, then memory and abstraction, and the parts that make Vesta different (its compile-time, its standard library written in the language itself, and its runtime) arrive once you can already read the code.

Chapters shown without a link are not written yet. They are listed anyway so you can see the whole path.