examples
Example applications, microservices, and code samples for the Internet Computer (by dfinity)
motoko
Simple high-level language for writing Internet Computer canisters (by dfinity)
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| examples | motoko | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | |
| 497 | 474 | |
| 4.8% | 2.5% | |
| 9.8 | 9.3 | |
| 7 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| JavaScript | OCaml | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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.
examples
Posts with mentions or reviews of examples.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-10.
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AMA: We are Andreas, Claudio, Christoph, Gabor, Ömer, and Yan from the Language Team. Ask us Anything about Motoko, a new programming language.
Motoko examples repository - https://github.com/dfinity/examples/tree/master/motoko
motoko
Posts with mentions or reviews of motoko.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-07.
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Announcing: the Motoko Developer Experience Survey!
Honestly talking about "prettier" in 2022 is quite alarming. Specially when motoko already has an LSP that has the power to the exactly the same thing but would be compatible with all IDE. I'll never understand why it was initially created in OCaml. It was probably abandoned because of it. If anything a complete re-write in a more modern language would be more appropriate.
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Motoko is written in half swift...
First off, Motoko is open sourced, and you can find all the ingredients here. Second, you seem to get trolled by GitHub's language classifier. There is no Swift in our codebase, other than the homeopathic traces of the word "Swift" in the emacs mode and certain markdown metadata. If you click on the language identification on the front page you'll get directed to the actual page and you'll find "Modelica" listed (this is another GitHub error), but no "Swift". On the surface Motoko and Swift share some keywords, but the parallels neither go far nor deep.
The Motoko compiler is written in Ocaml: https://github.com/dfinity/motoko .
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AMA: We are Andreas, Claudio, Christoph, Gabor, Ömer, and Yan from the Language Team. Ask us Anything about Motoko, a new programming language.
Motoko was open sourced this week, be sure to check it out! There is also a ton of knowledge about WebAssembly (Wasm) on the team, which is the binary instruction format of choice for the IC.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing examples and motoko you can also consider the following projects:
ic - Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
motoko-base - The Motoko base library
reason - Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems