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47 lines
1.5 KiB
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# AIKEN
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A cardano smart contract language and toolchain
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## Install
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For now you'll need rust installed, see [rustup](https://rustup.rs).
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`cargo install aiken`
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## Usage
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For now the command line application can only encode/decode Untyped Plutus Core
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to/from it's on chain format. See the roadmap below for a list of planned features and goals.
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```sh
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# compile an untyped plutus core program
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aiken uplc flat program.uplc
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```
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## Roadmap
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In general, the goal is to port everything we need for plutus to
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Rust. This will be needed if we ever want to build a full node in
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Rust. Since we will have these tools natively in Rust, we plan on
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building a new high level language for writing smart contracts on Cardano.
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These are generic milestones and the listed ordering
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is not necessariy the implementation order or full scope.
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- [x] compile plutus core into it's on chain encoding
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- [x] reverse the on chain encoding into plutus core
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- [ ] Plutus Core interpreter
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- [ ] create a higher level syntax with inspiration from
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- JS
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- ReasonML
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- Elm
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- Roc
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- Rust
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- Gleam
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- [ ] Language Server
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## Resources
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- Encoding/Decoding https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus/blob/master/plutus-core/untyped-plutus-core/src/UntypedPlutusCore/Core/Instance/Flat.hs
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- Typing https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus/blob/master/plutus-core/untyped-plutus-core/src/UntypedPlutusCore/Core/Type.hs
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- Serialization https://hydra.iohk.io/build/14133599/download/1/plutus-core-specification.pdf
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