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+# Honey
+
+Honey is currently bootstrapped with the Bro compiler. The expected development workspace places the Bro project at [`../brolang`](../brolang); consult that project for compiler behavior and documentation.
+
+Build Honey from this directory:
+
+```sh
+bro build
+```