Aiken is a modern smart contract platform for Cardano that offers functionalities like custom types, recursion, modules, and generics. It is built for easy programming with a pure functional programming language, strong static typing with inference, and first-class functions. Aiken offers a modern development environment with zero configuration, one single capable tool and friendly feedback with helpful error diagnostics. It includes a toolkit for working with Plutus that offers a baked-in unit test framework, an optimized on-chain execution, a full-blown Plutus interpreter & disassembler, and execution cost evaluation with trace reporting. Aiken is fully documented with end-to-end examples and initiated by TxPipe, nurtured by the Cardano Foundation with 20+ contributors from the Cardano community. Join the Discord community to know more about the roadmap that includes binary flat encoding/decoding, native Plutus core interpreter, and Aikens lexer/parser with highlight. Also, Aiken is written in Rust and is licensed under Apache-2.0.
