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Draft

Quick Start

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • Terminal — Draft is distributed as a single binary
  • curl or equivalent — for the install script

Install

Section titled “Install”

macOS / Linux

Section titled “macOS / Linux”
Terminal window
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://draft-lang.dev/install | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

Section titled “Windows (PowerShell)”
Terminal window
irm https://draft-lang.dev/install.ps1 | iex

Verify

Section titled “Verify”
Terminal window
draft --version

You should see the Draft compiler version printed.

Hello World

Section titled “Hello World”

Create a file named main.draft:

action main()
    write("Hello, world!")
fin action.

Run it:

Terminal window
draft run main.draft

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”