aiken vs PlutusExperience

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aiken		PlutusExperience
	Project
13	Mentions	1
369	Stars	20
5.1%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	8.4
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Rust	Language	PureScript
Apache License 2.0	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.

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.

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)
Cardano launches full EVM supported side-chain. The future is interoperable
2 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 30 Mar 2023

Aiken
Used ChatGPT-4 to Create a Simple Plutus Smart Contract
5 projects | /r/CardanoDevelopers | 28 Mar 2023

https://aiken-lang.org/ - also the Aiken devs have a great doc on eUTXO smart contracts
Cardano 2023 upcoming developments
2 projects | /r/cardano | 27 Mar 2023

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.
Thoughts on the current state of Cardano ADA?
4 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 11 Feb 2023

There are also libraries for Python-like https://github.com/ImperatorLang/eopsin & Rust-like https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken under community development.
Aiken new language is best good news in very long time I have heard, proofs decentralisation & could protect us from Gensler SEC securities cornering .
1 project | /r/cardano | 22 Jan 2023

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.
1 project | /r/cardano | 21 Jan 2023
Let's write a Cardano smart contract in Python
1 project | /r/cardano | 13 Jan 2023
Why Haskell will not limit Cardano’s developer adoption
3 projects | /r/cardano | 23 Dec 2022
Cardano Dev Tools and How-To's
14 projects | /r/cardano | 17 Dec 2022

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.

PlutusExperience

Posts with mentions or reviews of PlutusExperience. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-17.

Cardano Dev Tools and How-To's
14 projects | /r/cardano | 17 Dec 2022

Plutus Experience - https://github.com/LovelaceAcademy/PlutusExperience

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aiken and PlutusExperience you can also consider the following projects:

helios - Helios is a DSL for writing Cardano smart contracts. This library lets you compile Helios scripts and build Cardano transactions.

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

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

cardano_wallet_sdk - Targeting Flutter apps, the Cardano Wallet SDK is a high-level Dart library for managing cryptocurrency accounts & executing transactions on the blockchain.

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.

cardano-tools

hydra - Implementation of the Hydra Head protocol

blockfrost-js - Node.js SDK for the Blockfrost.io API.

pycardano - A lightweight Cardano library in Python

sdk - The Dart SDK, including the VM, dart2js, core libraries, and more.