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warp-contracts / warp

An implementation of the Arweave SmartWeave smart contracts protocol.

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Drop support for AssemblyScript and Go contracts #348

Closed ppedziwiatr closed 1 year ago

ppedziwiatr commented 1 year ago

We're dropping support for the Go and Assemblyscript in the SDK (zero interest in the community + some technical issues with both technologies).

Issues w AssemblyScript:

no support for async, without using some additional processing (https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2019/07/16/asyncify.html)
the language itself is lacking in terms of features (i.e. no closures support)

Issues with Go:

very big bundle size with default compiler (3MB for hello world)
with tinygo compiler - the hello world has ~300kB, but is lacking support for JSON ser/de (some weird, 3rd libs needs to be used)
very weird and non standard way of 'glueing' wasm code with the host (e.g. no standard module.export functions)

ppedziwiatr commented 1 year ago

Removed in 1.2.52