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24 alternatives to DAML

Open source language: build smart contracts on any platform

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DAML launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    RAML 1.0▲260

    The simplest way to design APIs

    2015 · raml.org · its alternatives →

  2. 2CD
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    Hey hacker news, we launched a few weeks ago as a GPT-powered chatbot for developer docs, and quickly realized that the value of what we’re doing isn’t the chatbot itself. Rather, it’s the time we save developers by automating the extraction of data from their SaaS tools (Github, Zendesk, Salesforce, etc) and helping transform it to contextually relevant chunks that fit into GPT’s context window. A lot of companies are building prototypes with GPT right now and they’re all using some combination of Langchain/Llama Index + Weaviate/Pinecone + GPT3.5/GPT4 as their stack for…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp: A glimpse into what the future of web integrated with modern blockchain technology could be like.

    2017 · thousandetherhomepage.com · its alternatives →

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    RAML▲62

    A Standard for API modeling, documentation and exploration

    2014 · raml.org · its alternatives →

  6. 6TS
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    Launch Your Own Self Executing Smart Contracts On Blockchain

    2025 · firebeetechnoservices.com · its alternatives →

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    Automating digital agreements through secure code logic

    Nov 2025 · bidbits.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m a researcher working on Bitcoin smart contracts, and today I’m releasing Bithoven—a high-level imperative language that compiles to native Bitcoin Script (Legacy, SegWit, and Taproot). The Goal: Raw Bitcoin Script is notoriously difficult to reason about. Writing raw Bitcoin Script today feels like writing Assembly in the 1970s. You have to mentally juggle the stack (`OP_SWAP`, `OP_ROT`), manually manage distinct execution branches, and pray you didn't leave a stack item unconsumed (which crashes the script). My goal was to bridge the gap between complex contract logic and raw…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Smart contract development accessible to everyone

    2022 · lokicode.io · its alternatives →

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    Rosetta▲69

    Build once. Integrate your blockchain everywhere.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    No-code smart contracts builder

    2022 · chainguide.io · its alternatives →

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    ✨ Fully autonomous AI Agent that can perform complicated tasks and projects using terminal, browser, and editor. - semanser/codel

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14SC

    2016 · dev.blockcypher.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, everyone! I built SHDL (Simple Hardware Description Language) as an experiment in stripping hardware description down to its absolute fundamentals. In SHDL, there are no arithmetic operators, no implicit bit widths, and no high-level constructs. You build everything explicitly from logic gates and wires, and then compose larger components hierarchically. The goal is not synthesis or performance, but understanding: what digital systems actually look like when abstractions are removed. SHDL is accompanied by PySHDL, a Python interface that lets you load circuits, poke inputs, step the…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built MOL, a domain-specific language for AI pipelines. The main idea: the pipe operator |> automatically generates execution traces — showing timing, types, and data at each step. No logging, no print debugging. Example: let index be doc |> chunk(512) |> embed("model-v1") |> store("kb") This auto-prints a trace table with each step's execution time and output type. Elixir and F# have |> but neither auto-traces. Other features: - 12 built-in domain types (Document, Chunk, Embedding, VectorStore, Thought, Memory, Node) - Guard assertions: `guard answer.confidence > 0.5 : "Too low"` -…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn smart contracts into APIs with no code

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I spent the past 2 weeks making this toy programming language. I basically forked the Go scanner/parser, and changed the syntax to have functions return a single value. This enable proper Result/Option type to be used as well as propagating errors with an operator. I also wanted to have short "type inferred" anonymous functions to be able to use functions like Map/Reduce/Filter, without having to use 100 characters to specify the types.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stackup▲90

    Infrastructure for smart blockchain accounts

    2023 · stackup.fi · its alternatives →

  22. 22OT

    Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.

    2019 · bitbucket.org · its alternatives →

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    Finyuus▲81

    A code-first language for durable, governed AI workflows

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easiest way to access data from 20+ blockchains

    2022 · unmarshal.io · its alternatives →

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