helios vs scalus

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helios		scalus
	Project
6	Mentions	4
134	Stars	47
0.0%	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	9.3
3 months ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Scala
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Despite all the recent events, Cardano DeFi has hit 500 million ADA in terms of Total Value Locked
5 projects | /r/cardano | 18 Jun 2023

Aiken OpShin Helios plu-ts Scalus (Still in development)
Used ChatGPT-4 to Create a Simple Plutus Smart Contract
5 projects | /r/CardanoDevelopers | 28 Mar 2023
Cardano Dev Tools and How-To's
14 projects | /r/cardano | 17 Dec 2022
Steel Man Why Cardano Fails
1 project | /r/cardano | 1 Oct 2022

I hate Haskell a lot. I'm really optimistic for projects like Helios.
What are the most exciting initiatives going on right now to improve the Cardano developer experience?
3 projects | /r/cardano | 15 Sep 2022

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.
IOGAcademy - Intro to the Haskell Course -- The start of something beautiful
2 projects | /r/cardano | 4 Sep 2022

Meet Helios... https://github.com/Hyperion-BT/Helios A dev language for Cardano that compiles to plutus-core.

scalus

Posts with mentions or reviews of scalus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

Despite all the recent events, Cardano DeFi has hit 500 million ADA in terms of Total Value Locked
5 projects | /r/cardano | 18 Jun 2023

Aiken OpShin Helios plu-ts Scalus (Still in development)
Why Haskell will not limit Cardano’s developer adoption
3 projects | /r/cardano | 23 Dec 2022
Is it currently possible to develop smart contracts on Cardano with Scala?
2 projects | /r/CardanoDevelopers | 21 Dec 2022

Not yet. Someone (ex-Marlowe engineer from IO) is working on Scalus (https://github.com/nau/Scalus) as a possible Scala eDSL for Plutus.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helios and scalus you can also consider the following projects:

aiken - Cardano Smart Contracts

plutarch-plutus - Typed eDSL for writing UPLC /ˈpluː.tɑːk/

opshin - A simple pythonic programming language for Smart Contracts on Cardano

plutus-pab-sdk

Scala.js - Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler

PlutusExperience - Plutus Experience Modules

dotty - The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.

cardano-tools

lucid - Lucid is a library, which allows you to create Cardano transactions and off-chain code for your Plutus contracts in JavaScript, Deno and Node.js.

pallas - Rust-native building blocks for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem