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.”
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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
