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+# Embedded Universal DSL: a good DSL for us by us
+
+This repository contains the source code for `EUDSL`, a toolkit for the construction of 
+embedded DSLs, in arbitrary languages, for targeting [MLIR](https://mlir.llvm.org).
+
+## Getting started
+
+Coming soon...