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+    <h1>The Thrax Programming Language</h1>
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+
+## What is it?
+
+Thrax is a little toy programming language I threw together in my free time near the end of 2022.
+My primary motivation was to learn more of the fine-point details of how dynamically-typed interpreted languages worked (JavaScript, Python and Ruby).
+In the future, I intend of doing a full write-up of the process and what it taught me on the way.
+
+I was also working on a [project](https://hdiharmony.web.app/) at [work](https://archytasinc.com/) that involved low-level parsing and interpretation of JavaScript code.
+While we were using SWC for the actual parsing, writing my own parser gave me a much better understanding of how everything fit together.
+
+## [Live Sandbox](https://thrax.elijahpotter.dev)
+
+You don't have to download or install anything to start using Thrax.
+Play around with the language and experiment with a few demo scripts at the [interactive sandbox](https://thrax.elijahpotter.dev).
+
+## Should You Use It?
+
+While it should be trivial to add Thrax to your Rust project, I do not recommend doing so for anything important.
+At the moment, I do not have the time to maintain or otherwise continue working on Thrax.
+
+## Local Development
+
+Want to explore Thrax on your own machine?
+
+As long as you have Node.js, Rust, and Yarn, you can run and build everything using:
+
+```bash
+./build.sh --release # or --debug
+```
+
+Or, to run all unit tests:
+
+```bash
+./test.sh
+```
+
+## What's in a Name?
+
+In Ancient Greece, "Thrax" usually meant "from Thrace."
+In this case, however, the name is a reference to one of the earliest grammarians, [Dionysis Thrax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Thrax).
+Just like how Dionysis Thrax had no formal education on grammar, and thus had to discover everything himself, I found myself discovering different aspects of recursive descent parsers and dynamic interpreters on my own.
+Thus the name, "Thrax".