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Documentation

Learn Hew from the ground up.

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Getting Started

Install Hew and write your first program

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Tutorial

Build a distributed key-value store in 6 steps

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Language Tour

A quick tour of Hew's syntax and features

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Actor Model

Actors, mailboxes, and message passing

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Type System

Types, generics, capabilities, and pattern matching

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Standard Library

Built-in types: String, Vec, HashMap, Iterator, IO

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Compiler

How Hew compiles: C backend, LLVM backend

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Comparison

How Hew compares to Go and Rust

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Language Specification

Formal EBNF grammar and complete language spec (v0.5.0)

© 2026 Stephen Olesen. Hew Language Project.
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