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 # Lake
 
-An overhaul of Leanpkg for Lean 4 where the package configuration and build scripts are written in Lean. Currently just a prototype. A more detailed README will come when the project has matured.
+Lake (Lean Make) is a new build system and package manager for Lean 4.
+With Lake, package configuration is written in Lean inside a dedicated `package.lean` file stored in the root of the package directory. Each `package.lean` includes a `package` definition (akin to `main`) which defines the package's configuration.
+
+## Creating and Building a Package
+
+We can set up a new package by running `lake init <package-name>` in a fresh directory. For example, we can create the package `hello` like so:
+
+```
+$ mkdir hello
+$ cd hello
+$ lake init hello
+```
+
+This will initialize a git repository in the directory with a basic `.gitignore` that ignores the build directory (i.e., `build`) where Lake outputs build files.
+
+It will also create the root Lean file for the package, which uses the capitalized version of the package's name (e.g., `Hello.lean` in this example). It contains the following dummy "Hello World" program:
+
+```lean
+def main : IO Unit :=
+  IO.println "Hello, world!"
+```
+
+Lake also creates a basic `package.lean` for the package:
+
+```lean
+import Lake.Package
+
+def package : Lake.PackageConfig := {
+  name := "hello"
+  version := "0.1"
+  leanVersion := "<current-lean-version-string>"
+}
+```
+
+We can use the command `lake build bin` to build the module (and its dependencies, if it has them) and a native executable. The latter of which will be written to `build/bin`.
+
+```
+$ lake build bin
+...
+$ ./build/bin/Hello
+Hello, world!
+```