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+# Lila
+
+Maybe a programming language
+
+## Dependencies
+
+The backend is [Cranelift](https://cranelift.dev/).
+
+Parsing will try to support multiple backends:
+- [Pest](https://pest.rs/) is written in Rust so it is easy to use
+  with the rest
+- [Tree-sitter](https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter) to try out
+  incremental builds after each modification (and maybe LSP)
+- Eventually a custom parser