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Everything you need to know about the Laye programming languages and its tools.

How to pronounce it

Laye is pronounced ['la.jɛ] or ['la.je] (see the interactive IPA chart for pronunciation guides.) It is two syllables: "lah", as in "law" in my accent, and "yeh" as in "yellow", with the stress on the first syllable.

First steps

If you're new to Laye, these are great places to start learning.

• From scratch: Overview | Installation
• Tutorials: Hello, hunter!
• Advanced Tutorials: TODO link some advanced tutorials

Getting help

Having trouble or have a question?

• See if your question has already been answered on the FAQ.
• Report bugs to the GitHub issue tracker.
• Need to talk to a human? There are plenty in the Forever Untitled Discord server. Use the #help-pls channel for actual help, or join or spark a casual discussion in another channel if it's less serious.

How the documentation is organized

Laye aims to provide a lot of thorough documentation. It's broadly organized into these four categories for your convenience.

• Tutorials take you along a path from start to finish for various simple topics. Start here if you're new to Laye to get a feel for how things are done!
• How-to guides go more in depth on real-world, common problems. Take a look at these once you've dipped your toes in Laye and are looking to build the fundamentals.
• Topic guides provide high level explanations of key topics and concepts, often including background information. If you're curious about specific things you've encountered, see what you can learn from these.
• References contain technical details about the Laye programming language and its standard library APIs. If you need the formal information on a topic, check here for the nitty-gritty.

This is roughly equivalent to the four categories in the Divio Documentation System. If you're interested in learning how to write documentation, I highly recommend giving it a read; it's very brief. If you want to contribute documentation, this is the system to follow.