helios
Helios is a DSL for writing Cardano smart contracts. This library lets you compile Helios scripts and build Cardano transactions. (by Hyperion-BT)
aiken
Cardano Smart Contracts (by aiken-lang)
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| helios | aiken | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 13 | |
| 134 | 369 | |
| 0.7% | 5.1% | |
| 8.7 | 9.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
helios
Posts with mentions or reviews of helios.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Despite all the recent events, Cardano DeFi has hit 500 million ADA in terms of Total Value Locked
Aiken OpShin Helios plu-ts Scalus (Still in development)
- Used ChatGPT-4 to Create a Simple Plutus Smart Contract
- Cardano Dev Tools and How-To's
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Steel Man Why Cardano Fails
I hate Haskell a lot. I'm really optimistic for projects like Helios.
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What are the most exciting initiatives going on right now to improve the Cardano developer experience?
One of the most exciting projects imo is Helios. If Cardano is to compete with other smart blockchains, we must move away from Haskell. I consider Plutus (Tx) being Haskell-based to be a serious design flaw of Cardano's developer experience. Plutus itself is inefficient and poorly thought out. Plutarch is much more well designed, even though it's still Haskell based.
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IOGAcademy - Intro to the Haskell Course -- The start of something beautiful
Meet Helios... https://github.com/Hyperion-BT/Helios A dev language for Cardano that compiles to plutus-core.
aiken
Posts with mentions or reviews of aiken.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Despite all the recent events, Cardano DeFi has hit 500 million ADA in terms of Total Value Locked
Aiken OpShin Helios plu-ts Scalus (Still in development)
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Cardano launches full EVM supported side-chain. The future is interoperable
Aiken
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Used ChatGPT-4 to Create a Simple Plutus Smart Contract
https://aiken-lang.org/ - also the Aiken devs have a great doc on eUTXO smart contracts
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Cardano 2023 upcoming developments
Improved developer experience thanks to Aiken smart contract platform. Interesting alternatives include Eopsin, Helios, Plutarch, Plu-ts, Scalus. Developers can step away from Plutus Tx. Smart contract development gets easier and smart contracts become much smaller.
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Thoughts on the current state of Cardano ADA?
There are also libraries for Python-like https://github.com/ImperatorLang/eopsin & Rust-like https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken under community development.
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Aiken new language is best good news in very long time I have heard, proofs decentralisation & could protect us from Gensler SEC securities cornering .
Pretty cool. I'm assuming this is your project. Here's the github link for those attempting to run this language at home
- Aiken, a new programming language for Cardano, could make smart contracts more resource and energy efficient! We discuss how this could drive growth of Cardano dApps.
- Let's write a Cardano smart contract in Python
- Why Haskell will not limit Cardano’s developer adoption
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Cardano Dev Tools and How-To's
Aiken (IP) - https://github.com/aiken-lang / https://aiken-lang.org/ : Aiken is a new programming language and toolchain for developing on the Cardano blockchain and takes inspiration from Gleam, Rust, and Elm.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helios and aiken you can also consider the following projects:
plutarch-plutus - Typed eDSL for writing UPLC /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
opshin - A simple pythonic programming language for Smart Contracts on Cardano
plutus-pab-sdk
plutus-pioneer-program - This repository hosts the lectures of the Plutus Pioneers Program. This program is a training course that the IOG Education Team provides to recruit and train software developers in Plutus, the native smart contract language for the Cardano ecosystem.
PlutusExperience - Plutus Experience Modules
hydra - Implementation of the Hydra Head protocol
scalus - Scalus - DApps Development Platform for Cardano
cardano-tools
pycardano - A lightweight Cardano library in Python