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Learn: For Backend Engineers

This is the hands-on track: get the toolchain installed, learn the syntax, then assemble real programs using the standard library, the web framework, and the package manager — with the debug tooling on hand for when things go wrong. It’s ordered the way you’d actually build up a service.

  1. Quick Start Intro

    Run code in the browser, then clone and `make install` the compiler.

  2. Tour of Axon Intro

    The core language surface you will use every day.

  3. Building a CLI Tool Intermediate

    A complete worked example: argument parsing, I/O, and a real binary.

  4. axon-std Standard Library Intermediate

    io, math, fmt, net, collections, and the rest of the batteries.

  5. axon-web Framework Intermediate

    Routing, middleware, the HTTP parser, and the JSON codec.

  6. Package Registry & axpm Intermediate

    Declare dependencies, resolve them deterministically, and vendor them.

  7. Best Practices & Idioms Advanced

    Idiomatic structure, error handling, and patterns for maintainable code.

  8. axon-debug Tooling Advanced

    Pretty-printers, crash symbolication, and the debug CLI for when it breaks.

Where to go next

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Coming from a specific stack? The comparison guides map your existing knowledge onto Axon: Go, Rust, Python, and C/C++. If your service is an inference workload, the AI/ML Engineers track covers the performance-critical primitives.