# Alice

> Alice is an open-source .NET programming language: writes like Ruby, runs like C, and bugs don't compile. Ruby-style syntax with types worked out for you; nil errors and data races are compile errors; loops run on every core; every NuGet package works.

## Website

- [Homepage](https://alice-lang.org/): Introduction, examples, libraries, and installation.
- [Homepage in Markdown](https://alice-lang.org/index.md): Readable alternative to the HTML homepage. Also available by requesting the homepage with Accept: text/markdown.
- [Full site context](https://alice-lang.org/llms-full.txt): Language overview, examples, installation, status, and licensing.
- [Install](https://alice-lang.org/install/): One-command installers for Linux, macOS and Windows, first steps, toolchains.
- [Benchmarks](https://alice-lang.org/benchmarks/): Results against C, C#, Rust and Bend 2 with machine, method and source for every number.
- [Showcase](https://alice-lang.org/showcase/): Programs written in Alice, with source links.
- [Roadmap](https://alice-lang.org/roadmap/): The plan for Alice 1.0.

## Primary documentation

- [The Alice book](https://alice-lang.org/documentation/): Structured language reference, guides, library, and interactive examples.
- [Chapter index for AI clients](https://alice-lang.org/documentation/llms.txt): Every chapter in reading order with explicit Markdown URLs.
- [Book in Markdown](https://alice-lang.org/documentation/index.md): Introduction and learning paths. Canonical chapter URLs also return Markdown for fetch requests or Accept: text/markdown.
- [Chapter manifest](https://alice-lang.org/documentation/manifest.json): JSON titles, descriptions, sections, canonical paths, Markdown paths, and previous/next links.
- [Source repository](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice)
- [Getting started](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md)
- [Language guide](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/blob/main/docs/language.md)
- [Tooling](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/blob/main/docs/tooling.md)
- [Performance](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/blob/main/docs/performance.md)
- [Playground](https://playground.alice-lang.org): edit and run Alice in the browser, and see the C# and .NET bytecode it compiles to.
- [Release installation](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/blob/main/docs/releases.md)
- [Releases](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/releases)
- [Examples](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/tree/main/examples)
- [Samples](https://github.com/alicelanguage/alice/tree/main/samples)

## Licensing

- [Code license](https://alice-lang.org/LICENSE): Apache-2.0.
- [Brand assets license](https://alice-lang.org/brand/LICENSE.md): Rabbit, name, and brand media are copyright Julia Klee, all rights reserved, separate from the code license.