Dapps Development
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`Dapps <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_application>`_ are
decentralized applications, also called 'smart contracts' running on Dune.

.. _lovesection:

Love based languages
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Love, currently under development, is an ML-style smart contract
language which is both more readable and closer in syntax to Liquidity
than Michelson.

Love will be available as a target for the Liquidity compiler.
Contracts written in Love will be able to interact with both Michelson
and other Love contracts.

It is expected to be released by end of September 2019.

Legacy Languages
----------------

Dune is 100% compatible with the `Michelson
<https://dune.network/docs/dune-node-mainnet/whitedoc/michelson.html>`_ low-level,
stack-based language in the Tezos blockchain. Moreover, other low-level
languages (see e.g. the Love based languages above) are due to be released in
the near future.

There are various languages targetting Michelson that can be used also
for Dune:

* The `Liquidity <http://www.liquidity-lang.org>`_ language accepts
  both OCaml and ReasonML syntax. Its `Online Editor
  <http://www.liquidity-lang.org/edit>`__ can directly deploy smart
  contracts on the network. It also features a decompiler from
  Michelson back to Liquidity to audit contracts.

* The `Ligo <https://www.ligolang.org/>`__ language accepts both
  Pascal and OCaml syntaxes.

* The `SmartPy <https://smartpy.io/>`__ language accepts Python-like
  syntax.


Other languages
----------------------

Other low-level languages may be integrated into the Dune blockchain
in the future as needs arise.