Is there a plan to deploy a new smart contract program language?

[csunny]

As we all know, Libra deploy a new language, which named Move. So Is there a plan to deploy a new smart contract program language to support safety or TPS？

[nksanthosh]

We are constantly evaluating new smart contract authoring languages, testing frameworks, etc. to make it easy for the community to develop smart contracts. Members in the community also have various projects ongoing to support RUST, TypeScript derivatives, etc. At the current time our internal efforts have not matured enough to be release ready.

However, we would like to hear from you so please leave a comment on this issue:

• if you have particular interest in a language and why you would like to see support for that language.
• in addition, as a developer, what tooling would you need immediately within the new language to make your developer experience easier?

[jnordberg]

I'd love to see Swift support, it's the perfect language for smart contract development IMHO. It is performant and systems level while still being approachable and safe. There is an effort for getting WASM support into in to the official compiler here https://swiftwasm.org