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+# purus
 
-A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.
+Purus is a work-in-progress fork of PureScript that aims to deliver a modified PureScript compiler with JavaScript backend replaced with Untyped Plutus Core - a smart contract language of Cardano.
 
-[![Hackage](https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/purescript.svg)](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/purescript) [![Build Status](https://github.com/purescript/purescript/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/purescript/purescript/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+## Links
 
-## Language info
-
-- [PureScript home](http://purescript.org)
-- [Releases & changelog](https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases)
-- [Contributing to PureScript](https://github.com/purescript/purescript/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
-
-## Resources
-
-- [PureScript book](https://book.purescript.org/)
-- [Documentation](https://github.com/purescript/documentation)
-- [Try PureScript](http://try.purescript.org)
-- [Pursuit Package Index](http://pursuit.purescript.org/)
-
-## Help!
-
-### Community Spaces
-
-The following spaces are governed by the [PureScript Community Code of Conduct](https://github.com/purescript/governance/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). The majority of PureScript users use these spaces to discuss and collaborate on PureScript-related topics:
-- [PureScript Discord](https://purescript.org/chat)
-- [PureScript Discourse](https://discourse.purescript.org/)
-
-### Unaffiliated Spaces
-
-Some PureScript users also collaborate in the below spaces. These do not fall under the code of conduct linked above. They may have no code of conduct or one very different than the one linked above.
-- [PureScript Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#purescript:matrix.org)
-- [PureScript on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/purescript)
-- [The `#purescript` channel on Libera.Chat](https://libera.chat/)
+- Purus development is funded by Cardano Catalyst. [Link to the original proposal](https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/105745).
+- Discussions in this repo