Hi everyone,

My name is Chris Veselinov, CTO of LimeChain, and I’m writing this thread to propose the development (and funding) of a Go Runtime.

With this proposal, we’re looking to diversify and simplify the blockchain (parachain) development process, making the ecosystem more approachable/beginner-friendly and potentially more stable.

The ultimate/end goal is creating a framework in Go, which is an alternative to Substrate. However, it will be technically challenging to go for the direct implementation without abstracting components into different modules. Given that a modular approach has been taken, the practical goal would be to formalize those modules into a framework that can be reused by other developers.

This is why we propose to develop a framework for building Go Runtimes.

We recently got a W3F grant to research the technical feasibility of the project, as we encountered some Go-related challenges along the R&D process. We were able to get those out of the way and you can look at our efforts here.

Please see the official proposal document here. Any feedback or comments are highly appreciated.

About us: LimeChain is a blockchain development company founded in 2017 with a focus on building core blockchain infrastructure, developer tooling and dapps. We dove into the Polkadot ecosystem about 2 years ago with Subsembly - a framework used to design and implement Substrate runtimes in AssemblyScript, again funded by the W3F. Due to AssemblyScript limitations, we were able to partially deliver on the framework specifications.

Thanks on behalf of the whole LimeChain team!