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-# Nulform
+# ␀form
 
-** TODO: Add description **
+␀form – or NULform if your font is lacking – is an experimental IRC bot written
+in [Elixir](http://elixir-lang.org/), a language built on top of Erlang. The bot
+is only a secondary result of my effort to try to learn a new language and new
+programming paradigms.
+
+At this stage (and probably forever), ␀form is not even alpha quality and even
+releases in the supposedly stable branches can contain errors and may not even
+compile.
+
+
+## Goals for ␀form
+
+* Functional-ish design
+* Distributed, with tasks not blocking others from completion
+* Performant and able to scale to many networks and users
+* Live code reloading without restarting processes