Documentation

Home is a modern programming language for systems, apps and games, plus a toolchain that also type-checks and builds TypeScript. Start with the guide if you are new; the rest of this page is a map.

Every page says plainly what is usable today and what is still maturing. The capability matrix is the single honest reference if you only read one thing.

Start here

• Getting Started - install the toolchain, build your first binary.
• Variables, Control Flow, Functions - the basics, in order.
• Structs & Enums and Traits - how data and shared behaviour are modelled.

Language features

• Pattern Matching - exhaustive match with guards, ranges and destructuring.
• Type System - inference, unions, null safety and Result types.
• Generics - monomorphized generics with trait bounds.
• Macros - hygienic macros over the real AST.
• FFI - calling C without a binding generator.

Systems concerns

• Memory - ownership and borrowing, no collector.
• Comptime - running real code during compilation.
• Async - tasks, channels and the scheduler.
• Error Handling - errors as values.
• Performance and Metaprogramming.

Toolchain

• TypeScript Compiler - what home tsc does and how its parity is measured.
• Editor & CLI Tooling - language server, formatter, test runner, package commands.
• DX Commands - the full command reference.
• Package Management - how Pantry is used.

Use cases

• Systems Programming
• Game Development
• Operating Systems
• Web Services
• CLI Tools
• TypeScript Migration

Status and parity

• Capability Matrix - every language, codegen, tooling and stdlib row with status.
• TypeScript, Node.js and Bun - feature-by-feature parity.
• Architecture and Compiler Pipeline - how the compiler is built.