aiken/README.md

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Aiken Aiken

Cardano smart contract language and toolchain

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QuickStart

Prerequisites

For now you'll need rust installed, see rustup.

Getting started

In case you have fresh installation of rustup you might need to do:


rustup install stable

$ cargo install aiken

$ aiken --help

How to use

For more information please see the user manual.

Roadmap

Aiken defines its roadmap using Github Milestones. The roadmap isn't set in stone, but gives a high-level overview of where the project is headed for.

Contributing

Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md to know how.

Acknowledgment

We'd like to give a special thanks to @nkz for creating the logo and giving us the idea to name the project Aiken.


Note

The name comes from Howard Aiken, an American physicist and a pioneer in computing.