Software

Language

• technique-lang/technique
  The compiler, formatter, renderer, and language server.
• technique-lang/specification
  Formal specification of the language.

Editor support

• technique-lang/extension.zed
  Zed Editor extension.
• technique-lang/extension.vscode
  VS Code extension.
• technique-lang/highlighting
  Vim and Typst support.
• technique-lang/tree-sitter-technique
  Tree Sitter grammar used by extensions for syntax highlighting.

Website

This site was built using the Zola static site generator with an adaptation of the Goyo theme.

The setting used to illustrate some of the examples on this site was inspired by Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan Macmillan, 1979), shown here under the allowance of the Copyright Act (1976)’s Section 107 providing for fair use purposes such as criticism, commentary, parody, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Which of these applies is left as an exercise for the reader.

The tutorial text and language reference is excerpted from chapter 9 of Andrew Cowie's forthcoming Virtual Hammer: the Technique Procedure Language (Harrington Free Press, 2026).