Candid IDL documentation

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There is a very extensive documentation of the Candid IDL DFINITY has developed and opensourced on github recently, make sure to check it out to get a background on design decisions and inner workings :slight_smile:

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How does one install the candid didc cli? I don’t see it noted on the repo.

I think its being use at 3:19 in the video docs.

Thank you.

Update:

❯ wget -O $HOME/bin/didc https://github.com/dfinity/candid/releases/download/2020-09-02/didc-macos
❯ chmod +x $HOME/bin/didc
❯ set -Ua fish_user_paths $HOME/bin/didc
❯ which didc
/Users/mandalarian/bin/didc

Thank you.

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It’s also downloaded as part of the SDK. For me it ends up in ~/.cache/dfinity/versions/$VERSION/didc - along with moc et al - can grab it from there, too. :slight_smile:

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Btw @idkjs there’s quite a bit of Candid documentation available here in case helpful. It has since moved into the docs since @cryptoschindler’s original post :+1:

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