Build Things Fast

Tea is a strongly-typed, compiled language designed for building tools and applications. Write familiar code, compile to native binaries, ship instantly.

Get Started Install Tea

Quick Install

git clone https://github.com/special-tea/tea.git

Why Tea?

CLI-First

Built specifically for command-line tools with native binary compilation. Perfect for building fast, portable utilities.

Fast

Zero startup time, no JIT overhead, pure native performance. Your tools start instantly with minimal resource usage.

Type Safe

Catch bugs at compile time with powerful static typing and inference. Write confident code with full type safety.

See Tea in Action

Try the interactive code playground

greet.tea

Code

def greet(name: String) -> String
  "Hello, ${name}!"
end

var names = ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie"]
for person of names
  print(greet(person))
end

Output

Click Run to execute

Documentation

Learn Tea from basics to advanced features

Examples

Explore practical code examples and patterns

API Reference

Complete standard library documentation

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