The Internet Computer has officially supported writing canisters in Rust and Motoko for a while now. But the ecosystem has been expanding, with community efforts enabling smart contract development in other languages like C, JavaScript, and Python. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with writing can…

[image] If you want developers to be stuck with really bloated, slow canisters then I guess this idea makes sense. I’m not happy with having Typescript compile to WASM, Go just seems like a waste of time especially with Caffeine and Motoko around the corner.

I know Go isn’t optimal for WASM, I use Rust both for writing canisters and for optimizing the Go WASM builds. This is just me experimenting. No grand vision, just curiosity.

I literally did some research on this earlier today — not kidding. Not that I really want to give it a try since I have no knowledge of Go, but with Microsoft recently announcing that they rewrote TypeScript in Go, I had a hunch there might be some momentum in the web dev community to explore it. Lo…

Right now, I’m using TinyGo to compile to wasm-unknown, then sprinkling in some Rust magic :sparkles: afterward. Planning to explore wasip1 as well, where wasi2ic will be useful.

I’ve always liked Go better than Rust personally. I’d probably choose it over Motoko if the tooling and bundle sizes were up to par

Caffeine and Motoko are not silver bullets. If Rust introduces async, it also has a scheduling runtime. Motoko is a GC language, so these are not issues of Go - it just requires some optimization efforts when compiling to WASM. Moreover, the WASM standard includes GC implementation. If GC languages…

nice :clap: I specifically agree with this statement: [image] quint: it could open the door to a whole new group of developers who are already comfortable with the language. Plus, Go’s strong tooling and ecosystem could bring some unique advantages. one comment from my side: [image] quin…

Looks like we’ve resurrected an old thread, but I’ll chime in anyways :slight_smile: If you want developers to be stuck with really bloated, slow canisters then I guess this idea makes sense. Motoko is also garbage collected, so I don’t think that’s a reason why Go would be super bloated or slow…

hey there is also a C CDK for ICP [image] Lucid (cdk-c) - Alpha Release: Build IC Canisters in C Developers Lucid (cdk-c) Alpha: Build Internet Computer Canisters in C Build Internet Computer canisters in C with Lucid (cdk-c) – a lightweight, intuitive Caniste…

Writing Smart Contracts on ICP in Go – A First Step

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C canister dev kit have alpha release , feel free to refer any code that might help: Lucid (cdk-c) - Alpha Release: Build IC Canisters in C

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Writing Smart Contracts on ICP in Go – A First Step

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