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For me, the best route is to start with Functional Programming in Lean [1]. Get familiar with dependent type theory and Lean's syntax. Then go back to Lean's source code [2].

Lean is self-hosted, so the language is written in Lean. And it's well documented. Starting from the Prelude [3], all the way up to the language server (yes, Lean ships a parser combinator library and a JSON library with the language).

One caveat is that the toolchain version of the repo is the repo itself, so you'd have to follow the development guide [4] to set it up.

Also, this is different from the standard library std4 [5], which is actually not shipped with the language, but just a normal package developed and used as the standard library.

[1]: https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/

[2]: https://github.com/leanprover/lean4

[3]: https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/blob/master/src/Init/Pre...

[4]: https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/blob/master/doc/dev/inde...

[5]: https://github.com/leanprover/std4

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