ic VS motoko

Internet Computer blockchain (ICP) — a general-purpose blockchain system developed by the DFINITY Foundation (written in Rust);

Yes, non-rust dependencies can be a pain. We addressed this issue in three ways: 1. Sometimes, it just works™ if the crate has a copy of the C code and uses the cc crate to compile it. It's usually slow to compile C in a build script, but it works. 2. Sometimes, we write a custom BUILD script for direct dependencies and link external libraries by hand. Example: lmdb and lmdb-sys. 3. If all of the above is not an option or is too much work, we add a native library to the Docker container that runs our builds.

One thing that sticks out to me is that, while their code is open source, it has a restrictive license, the Apache License: https://github.com/dfinity/ic/blob/master/LICENSE - most open source projects opt for the MIT License.

Sources please? https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pulse talks of only ~100 commits (IC only, not including the other repos)

https://github.com/dfinity/ic/graphs/contributors You can see there are many contributors, whose own GitHub profiles show contributions to OTHER projects. For example, just clicking on one contributor, John Wiegley (Principal Engineer at DFINITY), you will see a long history of open source contributions: https://github.com/jwiegley

You can see the code here: https://github.com/dfinity/ic

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.

The Motoko compiler is written in Ocaml: https://github.com/dfinity/motoko .

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.