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+Introduction
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+
+Crowbar: the good parts of C, with a little bit extra.
+
+**This is entirely a work-in-progress, and should not be relied upon to be stable (or even true) in any way.**
+
+Crowbar is a language that is derived from (and, wherever possible, interoperable with) C, and aims to remove as many `footguns`_ and as much needless complexity from C as possible while still being familiar to C developers.
+
+.. _footguns: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun
+
+Ideally, a typical C codebase should be straightforward to rewrite in Crowbar, and any atypical C constructions not supported by Crowbar can be left as C.
+
+Motivation
+==========
+
+* `Rust is not a good C replacement <https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html>`_
+
+Journal
+=======
+
+* `Crowbar: Defining a good C replacement <https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/09/28/crowbar-1-defining-a-c-replacement.html>`_
+* `Crowbar: Simplifying C's type names <https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/10/13/crowbar-2-simplifying-c-type-names.html>`_
+* `Crowbar: Turns out, language development is hard <https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/10/19/crowbar-3-this-is-tough.html>`_
+
+Comparison with C
+=================
+
+The :doc:`/vs-c` is an informal overview of the places where Crowbar and C diverge.
+
+Syntax
+======
+
+:doc:`/syntax`
+
+Semantics
+=========
+
+TODO
+
+Discuss
+=======
+
+* `announcement mailing list <https://lists.sr.ht/~boringcactus/crowbar-lang-announce>`_
+* `permanent discussion mailing list <https://lists.sr.ht/~boringcactus/crowbar-lang-devel>`_
+* ephemeral discussions via IRC: #crowbar-lang on freenode (`join via irc <ircs://chat.freenode.net/#crowbar-lang>`_, `join via web <https://webchat.freenode.net/#crowbar-lang>`_)