aiken vs plutarch-plutus

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aiken		plutarch-plutus
	Project
13	Mentions	6
369	Stars	119
5.1%	Growth	0.8%
9.8	Activity	8.3
3 days ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
Rust	Language	Haskell
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT 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.

plutarch-plutus

Posts with mentions or reviews of plutarch-plutus. 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

Plutarch (IP) - https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch-plutus : Plutarch is a typed eDSL in Haskell for writing efficient Plutus Core validators.
How to get started making a real Plutus app?
2 projects | /r/CardanoDevelopers | 7 Nov 2022

Plutarch - Smart Contract Optimization for production (https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch-plutus)
The state of Plutus documentation is very disappointing.
1 project | /r/cardano | 23 Jun 2022

Also, I'd say Plutus is more complicated than Haskell, but only b/c there are so many counter-intuitive ways to do things. A big part of the problem is performance; we use tools like Plutarch to minimize overhead, but it still ends up being a problem.
Moving forward from Plutus?
2 projects | /r/cardano | 25 Apr 2022
Hi guys, whats your educated guess on scalability potential? As far as my knowledge goes. Right now the network is running ~2-5TPS. How far can it go?
1 project | /r/cardano | 20 Apr 2022

I'm pretty sure that the good dApps will optimize their code to make transaction size as small as possible. This will directly lead to lower fees or more revenue for the dApp. Many dApps are already using Plutarch to reduce transaction size. It's pretty cool that Plutarch has emerged from the Cardano community and not IOHK.
Liqwid Labs: Technical Status Update #55
1 project | /r/cardano | 5 Feb 2022

-Plutarch v1.1 released https://github.com/Plutonomicon/plutarch

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aiken and plutarch-plutus 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.

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

cardano-tools

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

hydra - Implementation of the Hydra Head protocol

PlutusExperience - Plutus Experience Modules

pycardano - A lightweight Cardano library in Python

pluto - An untyped Plutus Core assembler

cardano-node - The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.