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LATERALUS Wiki

A programming language that spirals outward — from simple ideas to profound compositions.

Welcome to the official LATERALUS wiki! This is your comprehensive resource for learning, using, and contributing to the LATERALUS programming language.

Quick Links

Resource	Description
🎮 Online Playground	Try Lateralus in your browser — no install needed
📦 PyPI Package	Install with pip install lateralus-lang
🚀 Quickstart Template	Ready-to-use project template

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Getting Started

• Installation — Set up Lateralus on your system
• Quick-Start-Guide — Write your first Lateralus program
• VS-Code-Extension — IDE support with syntax highlighting and LSP

Language Guide

• Language-Overview — Core concepts and syntax
• Type-System — Types, inference, and ADTs
• Pipelines — Data flow with |> and |>=
• Pattern-Matching — Match expressions and destructuring
• Error-Handling — Result, Option, try/recover
• Concurrency — Async/await, channels, and nurseries

Reference

• CLI-Reference — All command-line options
• Standard-Library — 62 stdlib modules
• Builtins — Built-in functions and operators
• Grammar — Formal EBNF specification

Advanced Topics

• Metaprogramming — Macros, const fn, and code generation
• FFI — Foreign function interface for C libraries
• Transpilation — Compile to Python, C, JavaScript, or WASM
• LateralusOS — The bare-metal OS written in Lateralus

Community

• Contributing — How to contribute to Lateralus
• Roadmap — Version history and planned features
• FAQ — Frequently asked questions

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About LATERALUS

LATERALUS combines pipeline-driven data flow, algebraic data types, Hindley-Milner type inference, and built-in scientific/crypto engines into a language built for scientists, security researchers, and software engineers.

Current Version: 3.0.1
Tests: 1,976 passing
Stdlib Modules: 62
Dependencies: Zero

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"Spiral out, keep going."