Overview 👀

Framework for building Parachains 🎨

This is an alternative solution for building Polkadot/Substrate-compatible runtimes in Go. It aims to streamline the process of building a parachain with emphasis on simplicity and ease of use over configurability and feature richness. It is designed to be straightforward to understand and use, while still providing the necessary tools to build a parachain.

Why choose an alternative implementation in Go 🌱

While there are several implementations of Polkadot Hosts in Rust, C++, and Go, the only option for writing Polkadot Runtimes is in Rust. Writing Polkadot Runtimes in Go is exciting, mainly because of Go's simplicity and automatic memory management. It is a modern, powerful, and fast language, backed by Google and used in many of their software, thus making it an ideal candidate for implementing Polkadot Runtimes.

How it started 💡

This project is a result of previous research, funded by Web3 Foundation Grants, and developed and maintained by LimeChain. The research provides conclusions if Go is a suitable choice for writing Polkadot Runtimes and further aids the development of a Go toolchain, capable of producing compatible runtimes.

If you are new to Polkadot, please check our onboarding guide on how to get started with the project.