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Add a mention of our nightly builds to our `README.md`. (#4158)

This provides an example of downloading and using the nightly buildings
of the toolchain. I've tried to provide appropriate caveats about the
fact that this is very early and not something that's really reliable.
But I wanted folks to know how they can play with the nightly releases
if they're interested.

I've also focused the source build instructions on the toolchain where
we'd be interested in contributions, and the first paragraph on trying
out Carbon in the browser with CE.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
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@@ -124,9 +124,10 @@ and provides a deeper view into our goals for the Carbon project and language.
 
 
 ## Project status
 ## Project status
 
 
-Carbon Language is currently an experimental project. There is no working
-compiler or toolchain. You can see the demo interpreter for Carbon on
-[compiler-explorer.com](http://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/).
+Carbon Language is currently an experimental project. You can see the demo
+interpreter for Carbon on
+[compiler-explorer.com](http://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/). We are also hard
+at work on a toolchain implementation with compiler and linker.
 
 
 We want to better understand whether we can build a language that meets our
 We want to better understand whether we can build a language that meets our
 successor language criteria, and whether the resulting language can gather a
 successor language criteria, and whether the resulting language can gather a
@@ -267,20 +268,57 @@ semantics onto C++ such as Rust-inspired
 
 
 ## Getting started
 ## Getting started
 
 
-To try out Carbon, you can use the Carbon explorer to interpret Carbon code and
-print its output. You can try it out immediately at
-[compiler-explorer.com](http://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/).
+To try out Carbon immediately in your browser, you can use the demo interpreter
+for Carbon on:
+[carbon.compiler-explorer.com](http://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/).
 
 
-Because Carbon is an early, experimental project we don't yet have releases you
-can download and try out locally, you'll instead need to build any tools
-yourself from source. We expect to have packaged releases you can try out when
-we reach our
+We are developing a traditional toolchain for Carbon that can compile and link
+programs. However, Carbon is still an early, experimental project, and so we
+only have very experimental nightly releases of the Carbon toolchain available
+to download, and only on limited platforms. If you are using a recent Ubuntu
+Linux or similar (Debian, WSL, etc.), you can try these out by going to our
+[releases](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/releases) page and
+download the latest nightly toolchain tar file:
+`carbon_toolchain-0.0.0-0.nightly.YYYY.MM.DD.tar.gz`. Then you can try it out:
+
+```shell
+# A variable with the specific nightly version:
+VERSION="0.0.0-0.nightly.YYYY.MM.DD"
+
+# Unpack the toolchain:
+tar -xvf carbon_toolchain-${VERSION}.tar.gz
+
+# Create a simple Carbon source file:
+echo "fn Run() { Core.Print(42); }" > forty_two.carbon
+
+# Compile to an object file:
+./carbon_toolchain-${VERSION}/bin/carbon compile \
+  --output=forty_two.o forty_two.carbon
+
+# Install minimal system libraries used for linking. Note that installing `gcc`
+# or `g++` for compiling C/C++ code with GCC will also be sufficient, these are
+# just the specific system libraries Carbon linking still uses.
+sudo apt install libgcc-11-dev
+
+# Link to an executable:
+./carbon_toolchain-${VERSION}/bin/carbon link \
+  --output=forty_two forty_two.o
+
+# Run it:
+./forty_two
+```
+
+As a reminder, the toolchain is still very early and many things don't yet work.
+Please hold off on filing lots of bugs: we know many parts of this don't work
+yet or may not work on all systems. We expect to have releases that are much
+more robust and reliable that you can try out when we reach our
 [0.1 milestone](/docs/project/milestones.md#milestone-01-a-minimum-viable-product-mvp-for-evaluation).
 [0.1 milestone](/docs/project/milestones.md#milestone-01-a-minimum-viable-product-mvp-for-evaluation).
 
 
-If you do want to try out Carbon locally, you'll need to install our
-[build dependencies](/docs/project/contribution_tools.md#setup-commands) (Bazel,
-Clang, LLD, libc++) and check out the Carbon repository, for example on Debian
-or Ubuntu:
+If you want to build Carbon's toolchain yourself or are thinking about
+contributing fixes or improvements to Carbon, you'll need to install our
+[build dependencies](/docs/project/contribution_tools.md#setup-commands) (Clang,
+LLD, libc++) and check out the Carbon repository. For example, on Debian or
+Ubuntu:
 
 
 ```shell
 ```shell
 # Update apt.
 # Update apt.
@@ -298,14 +336,7 @@ $ git clone https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
 $ cd carbon-lang
 $ cd carbon-lang
 ```
 ```
 
 
-Then you can build and run the explorer:
-
-```shell
-# Build and run the explorer.
-$ ./scripts/run_bazelisk.py run //explorer -- ./explorer/testdata/print/format_only.carbon
-```
-
-And you can try out our toolchain which has a very early-stage compiler for
+Then you can try out our toolchain which has a very early-stage compiler for
 Carbon:
 Carbon:
 
 
 ```shell
 ```shell