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MoonScript is a self-hosted compiler, meaning it's written in MoonScript itself. When contributing, please follow the following guidelines:

1. Edit`.moon` files, never modify the alongside`.lua` files directly

2. After making changes to`.moon` files, run the compiler to regenerate the corresponding`.lua` files

3. Both`.moon` and`.lua` files are included in the repository to ensure that:

- Users can install and use MoonScript without having to compile it themselves

- The compiler bootstrapping process works consistently

It's helpful to have a separate installation of MoonScript should you break

something and you need to re-build the MoonScript with a working version of

MoonScript. You can check out the repo in another directory, or install it

using LuaRocks to have a separate working version.

Writing specs is a bit more complicated. Check out[the spec writing guide](spec/README.md).

Precompiled versions of MoonScript are provided for Windows. You can find them

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