On Nov. 5, the software developer Brenton Gunning announced to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community that he’d developed a BCH library written in the programming language Rust. The new library allows developers the ability to work on BCH applications and platforms written in the Rust coding environment.
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Rust-BCH 0.1.0: A Bitcoin Cash Library Written in the Rust Programming Environment
The Bitcoin Cash community has been introduced to another BCH library written in a different coding language. The systems programming environment Rust is a syntax similar to C++ code and was originally developed by Graydon Hoare. Gunning’s project, called Rust-BCH 0.1.0, is a library that contains protocol messages, address generation, support for mainnet and testnet, transaction signing, script evaluation, wallet key derivation and more.
“Today I’m releasing Rust-BCH 0.1.0, a new library to build applications on Bitcoin Cash in Rust,” explains Gunning on the Reddit forum r/btc. “All the existing Rust libraries were lacking for me in one way or another — You can use it to build a wallet, or a node, do chain analysis, and anything really — I use Rust-BCH myself for projects so I’ve also benefited from others’ contributions and this is me giving back.”
The Variety of Bitcoin Cash Implementations Continues to Grow
Gunning believes that Rust is an appreciable programming language that to him is “fast and low-level, but also very safe and predictable.” The developer explained during the announcement that he thinks Rust is a “great fit” for BCH applications and hopes to see more programmers use the coding language. The Rust-BCH Github repository explains that the project has no ties to the Rust-Bitcoin protocol but the library can do everything it can and more. Gunning’s repository also explains that there are other BCH projects like Parity and Bitcrust that use the Rust language and he believes “the two projects could be used together.” In addition to the library, Gunning has published the Rust-BCH documentation with examples.
The Bitcoin Cash network has seen a bunch of libraries and full node projects written in multiple languages launched recently. Clients such as Bitcoin ABC, Unlimited, and SV are written in the C programming language Satoshi used when releasing the original client. Then there is the Bcoin client, a full node and library for Bitcoin Cash built with Javascript/NodeJS. Further, news.Bitcoin.com recently reported on the two libraries written in the Golang coding environment and Yenom developers have been working on an iOS compatible Swift implementation of the BCH protocol.
Gunning does detail he has shown support to the Bitcoin SV ruleset and included it within his library. However, the developer stated on Reddit that he is prepared to support other outcomes and is willing to “see how the fork goes.” The BCH community on Reddit was pleased to see another BCH implementation and Gunning’s announcement was a popular post on the r/btc subreddit. Gunning concluded during his announcement that he would love to see some feedback and contributions to the Rust-BCH 0.1.0 library.
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