# Get started

What Karyos is, what the current alpha contains and how to build it.

## Pages in this section

- [Karyos overview](/en/docs/get-started/overview/): Karyos is a low-latency messaging transport written in Rust. This page explains what it does and what the 0.1.0-alpha.1 release contains.
- [Build and test Karyos](/en/docs/get-started/build-and-test/): How to build the Karyos workspace and run its tests, Loom models, Miri and the deterministic simulator on your machine or in a Linux container.