Did you start with the Preface, or are you going to read it at the end?

(I strongly recommend the latter.)

Is the protocol documented so that other people can build language front-ends?

Just wait until you get into the Science of Logic

A Hegel just flew over your house.

Yes! I just wrote up documentation for the protocol earlier this week: https://hegel.dev/reference/protocol.

In reality, we hope to provide more guidance than this to people who want to write their own language frontend. This protocol reference doesn't talk about the realities of [hegel-core](https://github.com/hegeldev/hegel-core) and how to invoke it, for example.

We intend to write a "How to write your own Hegel library" how-to guide. You can subscribe to this issue to get notified when we write that: https://github.com/hegeldev/website/issues/3.

If you're eager, pointing your favorite LLM at https://hegel.dev/reference/protocol + https://github.com/hegeldev/hegel-rust and asking it to write you one for your language of choice should be enough to get you started!

It isn't. See: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708045

(I can really only do your question a modicum of justice by answering metaphorically.) That Anglo-American analytic philosophy, which has dominated much of 20th century Western philosophy and Western thought, was doomed from the start. It treated ontological Being as fixed, as beings nailed to a wall, lifeless and immobile. Hegelian philosophy, more than anything, is about movement.

I'm starting with the Science of Logic!

I want to cry...

The first part of his Encyclopedia will help a lot, and might be better to read first before diving into SoL.