CashScript is a high level language enabling basic smart contract functionality on Bitcoin Cash. While these cash contracts are less powerful than Ethereum's smart contracts, CashScript was in many ways inspired by Ethereum's development ecosystem. Ethereum has always had one of the most accessible development ecosystems in terms of tooling, and with CashScript we want to bring that accessibility to Bitcoin Cash.
cashc can be used as an npm package, or as a standalone CLI tool. The npm package exposes functionality that is used to build libraries on top of cashc, and should not be used for other purposes. If you do want to build your own library on top of cashc, a full documentation is forthcoming, but if you want to integrate Cash Contracts into JavaScript or TypeScript projects, you should use the CashScript JavaScript SDK instead.
The rest of this README focuses on the standalone cashc CLI tool, which is used to compile Cash Contract files (.cash) into .json artifact files. These artifacts can be imported and used by any of the CashScript SDKs (the only existing SDK at the moment is the JavaScript SDK).
You can use npm to install the cashc command line tool gloablly.
npm install -g cashc
The cashc CLI tool can be used to compile .cash files to JSON artifact files.
Usage: cashc [options] [source_file]
Options:
--output, -o Specify a file to output the generated artifact. [string]
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
CashScript is a high-level language that allows you to write cash contracts in a straightforward and familiar way. It is inspired by Ethereum's Solidity, but it is not the same, and cash contracts work very differently from Ethereum's smart contracts. See the Language Documentation for more information on the language itself.
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Compile Bitcoin Cash contracts to Bitcoin Cash Script or artifacts
The npm package cashc receives a total of 380 weekly downloads. As such, cashc popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cashc demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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