GitHub - home-lang/home: There is no language like Home.

A modern programming language for systems, apps, and games. Combines the speed of Zig, the safety of Rust, and the joy of TypeScript.

Status: Home is under active development. The lexer, parser, type inference, and tree-walking interpreter are usable today; native codegen, tooling, the TypeScript frontend, and the Bun-compatible runtime are still maturing. See the parity status section below for percentage-based numbers across every area, with per-feature drill-down pages in docs/PARITY-TYPESCRIPT.md, docs/PARITY-NODE.md, docs/PARITY-BUN.md, and the wider docs/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.md.

For release notes see CHANGELOG.md.

Parity status

The whole status, percentage-based. Every number is a byte-for-byte, file-count, or row-count measurement against an external baseline — not an aspirational target. Each row cites the package, harness, or upstream source that produces it.

Refreshed 2026-05-30. Coarse-mode TS corpus and per-slice exact mode are regression-gated on every PR; Bun port % is file-count progress over integrated Home ports, while raw source presence is reported separately now that the full Bun source backlog has been staged. TS diagnostic-code coverage (1,146 / 2,076 emitted) tracks the catalog- only → emitted ratchet; each feat(ts-parity): implement TSxxxx commit moves this row by 1. Note: faithful "100% parity" is the reachable subset — the ~446 catalog-only codes the reference compiler (typescript-go) actually emits — not all 2,076. The other ~514 catalog-only codes are dead in the reference (obsolete/superseded wording it never produces); see docs/TS_DIAGNOSTIC_REACHABILITY.md.

Detailed per-feature breakdowns (the README is the at-a-glance view; these are the drill-down pages — modeled after Bun's Node.js compatibility doc):

docs/PARITY-TYPESCRIPT.md — every TypeScript feature with 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 status
docs/PARITY-NODE.md — every node:* module with 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 / ❌ status
docs/PARITY-BUN.md — every Bun API + phase-by-phase port status
docs/PARITY-BUN-COMPAT.md — packages/compat/ shim symbol-by-symbol status
docs/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.md — full language / codegen / tooling / stdlib matrix
docs/TS_PARITY_PLAN.md — parity plan + dated journal entries
docs/CONFORMANCE_CATEGORIES.md — per-category TS conformance breakdown
packages/runtime/PORT_AUDIT_2026-05-20.md — Bun runtime port audit; live counts come from scripts/measure-parity.sh --values

Headline numbers

Area	Coverage	Source
TypeScript — coarse corpus	5,907 / 5,907 — 100%	`HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_FULL=1` against upstream conformance corpus
TypeScript — exact (byte-for-byte)	~4,060 / 5,907 — ~68.7%	`HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_FULL=1 HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_EXACT=1`
TypeScript — baseline-aware (19 folders)	586 / 586 — 100%	per-fixture `.errors.txt` byte comparison
TypeScript — named-category survey	86 / 86 — 100%	`assignmentCompatibility` + `comparable` + `inOperator` + `stringLiteral`
TypeScript — diagnostic codes emitted	1,146 / 2,076 — ~55.2%	`docs/TS_DIAGNOSTIC_CODE_STATUS.md` — codes referenced from production source; 925 catalog-only remain (~446 reachable + ~514 dead-in-reference, see `docs/TS_DIAGNOSTIC_REACHABILITY.md`)
LSP wire methods	75 / ~80 — ~94%	`SUPPORTED_METHODS` in `packages/ts_lsp_server/`; LSP 3.17 sync/lifecycle complete, notebook + window meta wired, workspaceSymbol/resolve + $/progress + codeAction/resolve + workspace/textDocumentContent (LSP 3.18)
Bun runtime — source files present	1,289 files in `packages/runtime/src/`	live count from `scripts/measure-parity.sh --values`; audited Bun baseline is 1,193 files
Bun runtime — files integrated	552 / 1,193 — ~46.3%	Home-import-rewritten, Zig 0.17-clean, build-wired, and tested
*Bun compat shim — `bun.` symbols**	16 / ~103 — ~15.5%	Tier-0 + Tier-1 (`Output`, `strings`, `String`, `AllocationScope`, `Environment`, `JSError`, `create`, `debugAssert`, `env_var`) lets vendored Bun source compile against Home's stdlib
*Node.js — `node:` modules JS-callable**	24 / 47 — ~51% (🟡 subsets)	callable via Home's own JSC realm (`home eval` / `HOME_NATIVE_RUN`), unit-tested; see `docs/PARITY-NODE.md`. Not yet wired into the bun-corpus gate
JSC bring-up (Phase 12.2)	JS-callable bridge live	`home eval` / `HOME_NATIVE_RUN` run through Home's own JSC; 24 `node:` modules + a broad `Bun.` surface (spawn/spawnSync/which/file/write/hash/gzipSync/Glob/…) callable & unit-tested. Native subsystems: zlib (`std.compress`), crypto HMAC/pbkdf2 (`std.crypto`), spawn (`std.process`)
Language features (capability matrix)	18 stable / 43 partial / 2 not-yet — 63 total	~28.6% stable, ~68.3% in progress, ~3.2% not yet (includes TS frontend + Runtime/Bun rows)
Total test count	7,023 / 7,025 — ~100% (2 skipped, 0 failed)	`./pantry/.bin/zig build test --summary all` on Zig 0.17.0-dev — full unit + integration + conformance pin suite

TypeScript parity — `home tsc` vs `tsc` / `tsgo`

Measured by running the upstream TypeScript conformance corpus through packages/ts_conformance/. The harness compares byte-for-byte against upstream .errors.txt baselines in exact mode (HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_EXACT=1); coarse mode (HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_FULL=1 alone) only asserts that we emit the same families of diagnostics.

Measurement	Pass rate	Notes
Coarse mode (5,907 cases)	5,907 / 5,907 — 100%	Saturated; remains the per-PR merge gate.
Exact mode (byte-for-byte, full corpus)	~4,060 / 5,907 — ~68.7%	Ratcheting weekly.
Baseline-aware exact categories (19 folders, 586 cases)	586 / 586 — 100%	`apparentType`, `bestCommonType`, `recursiveTypes`, `typeInference`, `keyof`, `conditional`, `instanceOf`, `widenedTypes`, `specifyingTypes`, `primitives`, `any`, `import`, `uniqueSymbol`, `namedTypes`, `localTypes`, `forAwait`, `unknown`, `witness`, `typeAliases`, `asyncGenerators`.
Named-category exact survey (4 folders, 86 cases)	86 / 86 — 100%	`assignmentCompatibility` 70/70, `comparable` 13/13, `inOperator` 2/2, `stringLiteral` 1/1.
Smoke (3 folders, 16 cases)	16 / 16 — 100%	Per-PR fast path.
TS diagnostic-code catalogue	1,146 / 2,076 emitted — ~55.2%	Mirrors the full upstream code → message table; powers `home-lsp` hover-on-`TS1234`. 925 catalog-only entries remain (~446 reachable parity targets + ~514 dead-in-reference; see `docs/TS_DIAGNOSTIC_CODE_STATUS.md` + `docs/TS_DIAGNOSTIC_REACHABILITY.md`).

Exact mode by 1,000-case slice (latest):

Slice	Pass rate	%
`START=0 LIMIT=1000`	604 / 1,000	60.4%
`START=1000 LIMIT=1000`	611 / 1,000	61.1%
`START=2000 LIMIT=1000`	907 / 1,000	90.7%
`START=3000 LIMIT=1000`	646 / 1,000	64.6%
`START=4000 LIMIT=1000`	864 / 1,000	86.4%
`START=5000 LIMIT=907`	545 / 907	60.1%

Reproduce locally:

HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_FULL=1 \
HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_EXACT=1 \
HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_START=2000 \
HOME_TS_CONFORMANCE_LIMIT=1000 \
./pantry/.bin/zig build test -Dfilter=ts_conformance

Bun runtime port (`packages/runtime/`)

Phase 12 vendors Bun's Zig source under MIT and rewrites it to compile against Home's stdlib. The JS-callable bridge is live: home eval and HOME_NATIVE_RUN=1 home run execute JavaScript through Home's own JavaScriptCore realm (not system bun), with 24 node:* modules and a broad Bun.* surface callable and unit-tested. The default home run still delegates to pantry bun, and the bun-corpus gate still routes through the bootstrap harness — wiring the realm into those is the next convergence step (see docs/BUN_PARITY_PLAN.md).

Measurement	Coverage	%
Runtime Zig source files present	1,289 files	live `packages/runtime/src/*/.zig` count; includes Home glue and staged Bun integration backlog
Bun source files integrated	552 / 1,193	~46.3%
Subsystems scaffolded	85 directories under `packages/runtime/src/`	—
Functional runtime	🟡 JS-callable realm live (`home eval` / `HOME_NATIVE_RUN`); default `home run` + corpus gate still delegate	—
JS-callable realm surface	24 `node:` modules + broad `Bun.`	🟡 subsets, unit-tested; see `docs/PARITY-NODE.md` / `docs/PARITY-BUN.md`
JSC bring-up (Phase 12.2)	128 files	M1-M6 + JS-callable bridge live (eval/run through Home's own JSC; realm globals: console/process/web/crypto/timers/url/webcore/fetch/Bun/require)
`node:*` substrate (Phase 12.7)	28 files	round-15 landed (buffer, stream, fs, events, util, assert, os, url, querystring, crypto, process, string_decoder, tty + binding files)

Upstream pinned at fd0b6f1a (see packages/runtime/UPSTREAM_SHA.txt); full audit at packages/runtime/PORT_AUDIT_2026-05-20.md. The release gate per packages/runtime/README.md: Bun's test/ corpus must pass 100% with no skips once feature-complete.

Phase-by-phase status:

Sub-phase	Source under `~/Code/bun/src/`	Status
12.1 — CLI	`cli/`	🚧 scaffold landed
12.2 — JSC bring-up	`jsc/`, `bun.js.zig`	🟡 M6 milestone landed (128 files: JSON + Promise + Iterator + Global helpers); JS-callable bridge pending
12.3 — Event loop / IO / async	`event_loop/`, `io/`, `async/`	🟡 substrate landing (~30+ leaves ported via wave-19+ grinders)
12.4 — Module loader	`resolver/`, `module_loader.zig`	🚧 blocked on 12.2
12.5 — Web / HTTP / DNS	`web/`, `http/`, `csrf/`, `dns/`	🚧 blocked on 12.3
12.6 — Home.* JS surface	`bun.zig` (renamed to `Home.*`)	🚧 blocked on 12.2
12.7 — `node:*` shims	`node/`	🟡 substrate landing module-by-module (28 files: buffer, stream, fs, events, util, assert, os, url, querystring, crypto, process, string_decoder, tty)
12.8 — `home test` runner	`test/`	🚧 blocked on 12.2
12.9 — Pantry integration	`install/`	🚧 scaffold in progress
12.10 — CLI surface	`cli/`	🚧 scaffold landed
12.11 — Cross-compile + bundles	`build/`	🚧 not started

Bun compatibility shim (`packages/compat/`)

Top-level package that re-exports the minimal Bun surface against Home's stdlib so vendored Bun source compiles without modification. The build wires @import("bun") to this shim (see build.zig:349-350), letting the Bun bundler vendor files and the Bun runtime port keep their upstream imports diff-clean and re-syncable.

Measurement	Coverage	%
Symbols implemented	16 / ~103	~15.5%
Test surfaces	inline (~9 tests) + bundler-side integration (7 tests)	regression-gated

Implemented surface (16 symbols across Tier-0 + Tier-1):

Symbol	Status	Purpose
`bun.OOM`	🟢	`error{OutOfMemory}` alias for explicit error-return signatures (`bun.OOM!void`)
`bun.JSError`	🟢	`error{ JSException, OutOfMemory }` union for JSC-touching callers
`bun.Environment`	🟢	Build-time flags (`isDebug`, `isWindows`, `isMac`, `ci_assert`, `enable_logs`)
`bun.env_var`	🟢	Run-time env-var namespace (`WANTS_LOUD.get()`)
`bun.handleOom`	🟢	Unwrap OOM-returning calls or panic on OOM for call sites that can't propagate
`bun.default_allocator`	🟢	Process-wide allocator (re-exports `std.heap.smp_allocator`)
`bun.assert`	🟢	Alias for `std.debug.assert`
`bun.AllocationScope`	🟢	Allocator-scope wrapper for region-style lifetimes
`bun.Output`	🟢	Logger / stderr namespace (`enable_ansi_colors_stderr`, `isAIAgent`)
`bun.debugAssert`	🟢	Debug-only assert (compiles away in release builds)
`bun.create`	🟢	Typed allocator helper: `allocator.create + value`
`bun.StringHashMapUnmanaged`	🟢	Alias for the std-lib generic
`bun.String`	🟢	Interned-string newtype with `.static(...)` + `.slice()`
`bun.strings`	🟢	String utilities (`isValidUTF8` so far)
`bun.ast.Index`	🟢	Strongly-typed source-file / module index with `.Int = u32` companion
`bun.fs.Path`	🟡	Path record; Tier-0 callers read only `.text` (struct will grow per tier)

Each subsequent tier opens the door for more vendored Bun files to compile. See docs/PARITY-BUN-COMPAT.md for the per-symbol drill-down, planned Tier-2+ categories (bun.JSC.*, bun.path, bun.options, bun.resolver, bun.MutableString, bun.bake, bun.css, bun.transpiler, bun.SourceMap), and the test wiring.

Node.js compatibility (`packages/runtime/src/node/`)

Node's node:* namespace lands as part of the Bun runtime port (Bun ships node:* shims natively, which we vendor verbatim). Numbers below are Zig-side only; the JS-visible node:* surface attaches once JSC's JS-callable bridge ships (Phase 12.2 has reached M6 — JSON + Promise + Iterator + Global helpers — across 128 files).

Measurement	Coverage	Notes
Node binding files ported	28 files	`path`, `Stat`, `StatFS`, `dir_iterator`, `time_like`, `fs_events`, `os_constants`, `nodejs_error_code`, `node_fs_constant`, `node_net_binding`, `node_error_binding`, `uv_signal_handle_windows`, `types`, `util/parse_args_utils`, `assert/myers_diff`, plus top-level `buffer.zig`, `stream.zig`, `fs.zig`, `events.zig`, `util.zig`, `assert.zig`, `os.zig`, `url.zig`, `querystring.zig`, `crypto.zig`, `process.zig`, `string_decoder.zig`, `tty.zig` (Phase 12.7 round-15).
Functional `node:*` modules	🚧 Awaiting JSC JS-callable bridge	Pantry CLI replaces `npm install` / `bun install`; everything else routes through the Bun runtime port once JSC ships its JS bridge (Phase 12.2 milestones M3-M6 are in; the JS-callable wire-up is the remaining piece).

LSP / IDE coverage — `home-lsp` vs `tsserver`

Measurement	Coverage	%
Wire methods routed	53 / ~70	~76%

Routed methods (SUPPORTED_METHODS in packages/ts_lsp_server/src/ts_lsp_server.zig): hover, definition, declaration, typeDefinition, implementation, references (cross-file), completion + completionItem/resolve, signatureHelp, semanticTokens (full + delta + range), inlayHint (+ resolve), codeAction, codeLens (+ resolve), documentLink (+ resolve), foldingRange, selectionRange, linkedEditingRange, documentHighlight, documentSymbol + workspace/symbol, rename + prepareRename, prepareCallHierarchy + incoming/outgoingCalls, prepareTypeHierarchy + supertypes/subtypes, willSaveWaitUntil, willRenameFiles, executeCommand, moniker (LSIF), inlineValue, inlineCompletion, formatting + onTypeFormatting, documentColor + colorPresentation, pull-based diagnostic + workspace/diagnostic, lifecycle (initialize / initialized / shutdown / exit), synchronization (didOpen / didChange / didClose / publishDiagnostics).

Remaining surface: quick-fix breadth (organize imports + add import + add explicit type annotation landed; fix-all, missing-return-type, infer-parameter-types pending), FS-event-driven push diagnostics, full formatter pass (current formatDocument returns source unchanged), richer auto-import completion via cross-file interner search.

Language features

16 language rows from the Capability Matrix:

Status	Count	%
✅ Stable	3	18.8%
🚧 In progress / partial	12	75.0%
❌ Not yet	1	6.3%

Per-feature:

Feature	Status
Lexer (full token set, escapes, line/col tracking)	✅ Stable
Recursive-descent parser with error recovery	✅ Stable
Type inference (primitives, structs, enums, arrays)	✅ Stable
Pattern matching (`match` over enums, primitives, wildcards)	🚧 In progress
Closures	🚧 In progress
Traits / `impl` blocks	🚧 In progress
Trait objects / dynamic dispatch	🚧 In progress
Generics (functions and types)	🚧 In progress
Comptime evaluation	🚧 In progress
Macros (`todo!`, `assert!`, `unreachable!`, …)	🚧 In progress
Null-safety operators (`?.`, `?:`, `??`, `?[]`)	🚧 In progress
Result types and `?` propagation	🚧 In progress
Async / await	🚧 In progress
Ownership / move checking	🚧 In progress
Borrow checker	🚧 In progress
Const generics	❌ Not yet

Codegen targets

7 codegen rows:

Status	Count	%
✅ Stable	1	14.3%
🚧 In progress / partial	6	85.7%

Per-target:

Target	Status
Tree-walking interpreter	✅ Stable
x86-64 native codegen	🚧 Substantial (primary target)
arm64 codegen	🚧 In progress (Path B-lite M1-M11 shipped)
WebAssembly codegen	🚧 Stub
LLVM backend	🚧 In progress
ELF object emission	🚧 In progress
Mach-O object emission	🚧 In progress

Tooling

11 tooling rows:

Status	Count	%
✅ Stable	2	18.2%
🚧 In progress / partial	9	81.8%

Per-tool:

Tool	Status
`home check` (type-check)	✅ Stable
`home run` (interpret)	✅ Stable
`home build` (native binary)	🚧 In progress
`home test` runner	🚧 In progress
Formatter	🚧 In progress
Linter	🚧 In progress
LSP / IDE integration	🚧 In progress (see LSP coverage)
VSCode extension	🚧 In progress
REPL	🚧 In progress
Package manager (`pkg`)	🚧 In progress
Incremental compilation / IR cache	🚧 In progress

Standard library

9 stdlib categories tracked in the capability matrix (the project ships 135 packages under packages/ — most are 🚧 until end-to-end validated):

Status	Count	%
✅ Stable	3	33.3%
🚧 In progress / partial	6	66.7%

Per-module:

Module	Status
Core primitives (`int`, `float`, `bool`, `string`, arrays)	✅ Stable
String methods (`trim`, `upper`, `split`, …)	✅ Stable
Range methods (`len`, `step`, `contains`, …)	✅ Stable
HTTP server	🚧 In progress
Database / SQL	🚧 In progress
Threading	🚧 In progress
FFI / C interop	🚧 In progress
Audio / video / graphics	🚧 In progress
Kernel / OS modules	🚧 In progress

Capability matrix — combined totals

All 63 rows from docs/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.md (language + codegen + tooling + stdlib + TypeScript frontend + runtime/Bun):

Status	Count	%
✅ Stable	18	~28.6%
🚧 In progress / partial	43	~68.3%
❌ Not yet	2	~3.2%

The conservative bias is intentional: anything not exercised by an example or test stays 🚧 even when the underlying code is largely there.

TypeScript parity

Home is being extended with a drop-in tsc / tsgo compatible TypeScript frontend. The plan is documented in docs/TS_PARITY_PLAN.md. Phase 4.5 is substantially complete: a home tsc driver wires lex → parse → bind → check → emit end-to-end with multi-file program graph, parallel compile, source maps, tsc-compatible diagnostics, and a zig-dtsx fast path for .d.ts emission.

Top-level shape (each link is a Zig package with its own tests):

packages/ts_lexer — full ES2024 + TS keyword scanner (16-byte tokens, comptime perfect-hash keywords)
packages/ts_parser — recursive-descent statements, Pratt expressions, JSX, generics, decorators, full type-annotation grammar
packages/hir — SoA HIR (21 B/node hot footprint, gated at compile time)
packages/binder — symbol table with three TS meaning-spaces and declaration merging
packages/ts_checker — type interner, relation cache, expression-level checking
packages/ts_emit — streaming JS pretty-printer, V3 source maps, symbol-driven .d.ts, zig-dtsx fast path
packages/ts_driver — single-file end-to-end compile (lex → parse → bind → check → emit)
packages/ts_program — multi-file program graph with parallel compileAllParallel
packages/ts_resolver — module resolution across the five tsc strategies + path mapping
packages/ts_diagnostics — tsc-compatible diagnostic formatting (default + pretty)
packages/ts_cli — home tsc CLI flag surface
packages/ts_conformance — tsc-baseline conformance harness
packages/ts_lsp — Language Server query surface (hover, definition, references, completion, codeActions, semantic tokens, inlay hints, folding, document symbols, …)
packages/ts_lsp_server — JSON-RPC framing + method dispatch (53 LSP-spec methods routed; see parity status)
packages/ts_cache — content-addressed compilation cache with sharded disk persistence
packages/ts_watch — pluggable StatFs + watcher driving incremental recompiles in home-tsc --watch
packages/d_hm — Home declaration files (the .d.ts analogue for .home)
pantry/zig-dtsx — vendored as a pantry dep; powers the .d.ts fast path (15-19× faster than tsgo per published benchmarks)

home-tsc and home-lsp ship as standalone binaries — see the ./pantry/.bin/zig build invocation to compile them; they install into zig-out/bin/.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-lang/home/main/install.sh | bash

The installer detects your platform, downloads a release tarball from GitHub Releases, verifies its checksum, and installs the home binary to ~/.home/bin. It supports macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux (x64 + arm64), and Windows (x64 + arm64, via Git Bash / WSL).

Useful environment variables:

HOME_VERSION=v0.1.0 (or 0.1.0) — pin a specific release tag (default: latest)
HOME_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/home — override install location (default: ~/.home)
HOME_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin — override where the binary is placed

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/home-lang/home.git
cd home
pantry install        # installs the pinned Zig 0.17 dev toolchain
./pantry/ziglang.org/v0.17.0-dev.263+0add2dfc4/zig build

# Run an example
./zig-out/bin/home build examples/fibonacci.home
./examples/fibonacci

Useful commands:

./pantry/.bin/zig build — build the compiler
./pantry/.bin/zig build test — run the unit-test suite
./pantry/.bin/zig build examples — run the native example executables (http_router, craft, fullstack, queue)
./pantry/.bin/zig build run -- examples/fibonacci.home — build, then run a file
scripts/check-examples.sh — home check every .home example
./pantry/.bin/zig build -Dgenerals=true generals — opt in to the C&C Generals example (needs Xcode frameworks)

Hello World

fn main() {
  print("Hello, Home!")
}

Language Overview

Variables

let name = "Alice"           // immutable by default
let mut counter = 0          // mutable
let age: int = 25            // explicit type
const PI = 3.14159           // compile-time constant

Control Flow

// if statements (parentheses required)
if (x > 5) {
  print("big")
} else {
  print("small")
}

// while loops
while (count < 10) {
  count = count + 1
}

// for loops
for (item in items) {
  print(item)
}

for (i in 0..10) {
  print(i)
}

// for with index
for (index, item in items) {
  print("{index}: {item}")
}

Functions

fn add(a: int, b: int): int {
  return a + b
}

fn greet(name: string) {
  print("Hello, {name}!")
}

// default parameter values
fn greet_with_default(name: string = "World") {
  print("Hello, {name}!")
}

greet_with_default()          // prints: Hello, World!
greet_with_default("Alice")   // prints: Hello, Alice!

// async functions
fn fetch_data(): async Result<Data> {
  let response = await http.get("/api/data")
  return response.json()
}

Structs

struct Point {
  x: int
  y: int
}

struct User {
  id: i64
  name: string
  email: string
}

let origin = Point { x: 0, y: 0 }
let user = User { id: 1, name: "Alice", email: "alice@example.com" }

Enums

enum Color {
  Red,
  Green,
  Blue,
  Custom(r: int, g: int, b: int)
}

enum Result<T, E> {
  Ok(T),
  Err(E)
}

Pattern Matching

match value {
  Ok(x) => print("Got: {x}"),
  Err(e) => print("Error: {e}")
}

match color {
  Color.Red => print("red"),
  Color.Green => print("green"),
  Color.Blue => print("blue"),
  Color.Custom(r, g, b) => print("rgb({r}, {g}, {b})")
}

Expression Forms

If and match can be used as expressions that return values:

// if expression
let status = if (code == 200) { "ok" } else { "error" }

// match expression
let name = match x {
  1 => "one",
  2 => "two",
  _ => "other"
}

Null Safety Operators

// Elvis operator (?:) - returns right side if left is null
let name = user?.name ?: "Anonymous"

// Null coalescing (??) - same as Elvis
let value = maybeNull ?? defaultValue

// Safe navigation (?.) - returns null if object is null
let city = user?.address?.city

// Safe indexing (?[]) - returns null if index out of bounds
let first = items?[0]
let safe = items?[10] ?: defaultItem

Error Handling

fn read_file(path: string): Result<string, Error> {
  let file = fs.open(path)?   // ? propagates errors
  return Ok(file.read_all())
}

// handle errors
match read_file("config.home") {
  Ok(content) => process(content),
  Err(e) => print("Failed: {e}")
}

// or with default
let content = read_file("config.home").unwrap_or("default")

Arrays and Slices

let numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
let first = numbers[0]
let slice = numbers[1..4]      // [2, 3, 4]

for (n in numbers) {
  print(n)
}

// Array methods
numbers.len()       // 5
numbers.is_empty()  // false
numbers.first()     // 1
numbers.last()      // 5

String Methods

let s = "  Hello World  "

// Length
s.len()              // 15

// Case conversion
s.upper()            // "  HELLO WORLD  "
s.lower()            // "  hello world  "

// Trimming
s.trim()             // "Hello World"
s.trim_start()       // "Hello World  "
s.trim_end()         // "  Hello World"

// Searching
s.contains("World")  // true
s.starts_with("  H") // true
s.ends_with("  ")    // true

// Splitting and replacing
"a,b,c".split(",")           // ["a", "b", "c"]
s.replace("World", "Home")   // "  Hello Home  "

// Other methods
"ab".repeat(3)       // "ababab"
s.is_empty()         // false
s.char_at(2)         // "H"
"hello".reverse()    // "olleh"

// Method chaining
"  HELLO  ".trim().lower()  // "hello"

Arithmetic Operators

// Power operator (**)
let squared = 5 ** 2      // 25
let cubed = 2 ** 3        // 8
let power10 = 2 ** 10     // 1024

// Integer division (~/)
let result = 7 ~/ 2       // 3 (truncates toward zero)
let another = 17 ~/ 5     // 3

// Standard operators
let sum = 10 + 5          // 15
let diff = 10 - 3         // 7
let prod = 4 * 3          // 12
let quot = 10 / 4         // 2.5 (regular division)
let rem = 10 % 3          // 1 (modulo)

Range Methods

// Create ranges
let r = 0..10            // exclusive: 0,1,2,...,9
let inclusive = 0..=10   // inclusive: 0,1,2,...,10

// Range methods
r.len()                  // 10
r.first()                // 0
r.last()                 // 9
r.contains(5)            // true
r.contains(10)           // false (exclusive)

// Step through range
let stepped = (0..10).step(2)
stepped.to_array()       // [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

// Inclusive range
inclusive.len()          // 11
inclusive.contains(10)   // true
inclusive.last()         // 10

Generics

fn map<T, U>(items: []T, f: fn(T): U): []U {
  let result = []U.init(items.len)
  for (i, item in items) {
    result[i] = f(item)
  }
  return result
}

struct Stack<T> {
  items: []T

  fn push(self, item: T) {
    self.items.append(item)
  }

  fn pop(self): Option<T> {
    return self.items.pop()
  }
}

Comptime

comptime fn factorial(n: int): int {
  if (n <= 1) {
    return 1
  }
  return n * factorial(n - 1)
}

const FACT_10 = factorial(10)  // computed at compile time

Standard Library

HTTP Server

import http { Server, Response }

fn main() {
  let server = Server.bind(":3000")

  server.get("/", fn(req) {
    return "Hello from Home!"
  })

  server.get("/users/:id", fn(req): Response {
    let id = req.param("id")
    return Response.json({ id: id })
  })

  server.listen()
}

Database

import database { Connection }

fn main() {
  let db = Connection.open("app.db")

  db.exec("CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER, name TEXT)")

  let stmt = db.prepare("INSERT INTO users VALUES (?, ?)")
  stmt.bind(1, 42)
  stmt.bind(2, "Alice")
  stmt.execute()

  let users = db.query("SELECT * FROM users")
  for (row in users) {
    print("User: {row.name}")
  }
}

Async/Await

fn fetch_users(): async []User {
  let response = await http.get("/api/users")
  return response.json()
}

fn main(): async {
  let users = await fetch_users()
  for (user in users) {
    print(user.name)
  }
}

Project Structure

home/
├── src/main.zig           # CLI entry point
├── packages/              # 130+ Zig packages, each with its own tests
│   ├── lexer/             # Home tokenization
│   ├── parser/            # Home AST generation
│   ├── ast/               # Home syntax tree types
│   ├── types/             # Home type system
│   ├── codegen/           # Native code generation (x64 + arm64)
│   ├── interpreter/       # Tree-walking execution
│   ├── diagnostics/       # Error reporting
│   ├── ts_lexer/          # TS scanner (full ES2024 + TS keywords)
│   ├── ts_parser/         # TS parser (statements, expressions, JSX, generics)
│   ├── ts_checker/        # TS type interner, relation cache, expression typing
│   ├── ts_emit/           # JS + .d.ts emit (V3 source maps, zig-dtsx fast path)
│   ├── ts_driver/         # End-to-end per-file lex→parse→bind→check→emit
│   ├── ts_program/        # Multi-file graph + parallel compile + watch
│   ├── ts_resolver/       # Module resolution (5 tsc strategies + paths)
│   ├── ts_lsp/            # Language Server query surface
│   ├── ts_lsp_server/     # JSON-RPC framing + dispatch
│   ├── ts_conformance/    # tsc-baseline conformance harness
│   ├── hir/               # SoA HIR shared between both frontends
│   ├── binder/            # Symbol table (3 TS meaning-spaces, decl merging)
│   └── ...                # http, database, async, ffi, graphics, …
├── examples/              # Example programs
├── tests/                 # Integration tests
└── stdlib/                # Standard library

Building

Prerequisites

Pantry-installed Zig 0.17 dev (for building the compiler)

# Pulls the pinned Zig 0.17 dev build from Pantry.
pantry install

Build Commands

# Build the compiler
./pantry/.bin/zig build

# Run tests
./pantry/.bin/zig build test

# Check all .home examples through `home check`
scripts/check-examples.sh

# Build and run an example
./pantry/.bin/zig build run -- examples/fibonacci.home

File Extensions

.home - Standard source file extension
.hm - Short alternative

Features

Fast compilation - Incremental builds with IR caching
Memory safety - Ownership and borrowing without ceremony
Native performance - Compiles to native x64 code
Modern syntax - TypeScript-inspired, clean and readable
Pattern matching - Exhaustive match expressions
Expression-oriented - If and match as expressions
Null safety - Elvis (?:), safe navigation (?.), safe indexing (?[])
Async/await - Zero-cost async programming
Generics - Type-safe generic functions and types
Comptime - Compile-time code execution
Error handling - Result types with ? propagation
Power operator — ** for exponentiation (2 ** 10)
Integer division - ~/ for truncating division
Range methods - .len(), .step(), .contains(), .to_array()
Default parameters - fn greet(name: string = "World")
String methods - .trim(), .upper(), .split(), and more

Current Status

Home is under active development. For a granular, conservative view of what works today vs. what is partial, in progress, or not yet started, see the parity status section above (percentage-based, per-area tables) plus the detailed per-feature pages in docs/PARITY-TYPESCRIPT.md, docs/PARITY-NODE.md, docs/PARITY-BUN.md, docs/PARITY-BUN-COMPAT.md, and docs/CAPABILITY_MATRIX.md. Release notes live in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 3,867 Commits
.config		.config
.github		.github
.vscode		.vscode
bench		bench
docs		docs
examples		examples
packages		packages
scripts		scripts
src		src
tests		tests
tools		tools
.gitignore		.gitignore
AGENTS.md		AGENTS.md
CHANGELOG.md		CHANGELOG.md
CLAUDE.md		CLAUDE.md
README.md		README.md
build.zig		build.zig
bunfig.toml		bunfig.toml
couch.toml		couch.toml
install.sh		install.sh
package.json		package.json
pantry.json		pantry.json
pantry.lock		pantry.lock
tsconfig.json		tsconfig.json

Uh oh!

Folders and files

Latest commit

History

Repository files navigation

Parity status

Headline numbers

TypeScript parity — home tsc vs tsc / tsgo

Bun runtime port (packages/runtime/)

Bun compatibility shim (packages/compat/)

Node.js compatibility (packages/runtime/src/node/)

LSP / IDE coverage — home-lsp vs tsserver

Language features

Codegen targets

Tooling

Standard library

Capability matrix — combined totals

TypeScript parity

Install

Build from Source

Hello World

Language Overview

Variables

Control Flow

Functions

Structs

Enums

Pattern Matching

Expression Forms

Null Safety Operators

Error Handling

Arrays and Slices

String Methods

Arithmetic Operators

Range Methods

Generics

Comptime

Standard Library

HTTP Server

Database

Async/Await

Project Structure

Building

Prerequisites

Build Commands

File Extensions

Features

Current Status

Contributing

License

About

Topics

Resources

Code of conduct

Contributing

Security policy

Uh oh!

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

Sponsor this project

Uh oh!

Contributors

Uh oh!

Languages

TypeScript parity — `home tsc` vs `tsc` / `tsgo`

Bun runtime port (`packages/runtime/`)

Bun compatibility shim (`packages/compat/`)

Node.js compatibility (`packages/runtime/src/node/`)

LSP / IDE coverage — `home-lsp` vs `tsserver`