The goal of Offchain Labs’ new Arbitrum Stylus is to increase the number of languages that may be used in Ethereum Layer 2 dapps

In order to facilitate the creation of smart contracts in several languages, Offchain Labs has released a new technical implementation known as Arbitrum Stylus.

The company has made the Arbitrum Stylus source code and testnet accessible to the public and put it up for a vote by the Arbitrum community.

Offchain Labs, a blockchain development company, has released Arbitrum Stylus, a tool that allows smart contract authoring in languages other than the widely used Solidity on the company’s Layer 2 network.

Arbitrum Stylus stands apart since it supports not just Solidity, but other languages that can be translated to WebAssembly, abbreviated as WASM, for the creation of smart contracts. WASM, short for Web Assembly, is a mechanism to execute programs written in languages such as Rust and C++ on the internet, and with the help of Arbitrum Stylus, on the blockchain as well. More programmers will be able to begin creating smart contracts as a result.

Rust-based Ethereum smart contracts written using WASM tools are viable, but they haven’t caught on with developers just yet, particularly not in the Layer 2 niche.

Offchain Labs claims that Stylus will make it easier for developers with knowledge of Rust, C, or C++ to create smart contracts on Arbitrum. The company predicts that this might attract more than three million Rust and C programmers to the Ethereum smart contract ecosystem, which has hitherto been dominated by just roughly twenty thousand Solidity programmers.

In the future, Offchain Labs hopes to provide support for Stylus for any language that can be translated into WASM.

Adding that “growing and building the most inclusive developer community is incredibly important to us,” Offchain Labs CEO and co-founder Steven Goldfeder added. The potential for innovation on the chain and technological stack is limitless, and we want to make it available to as many individuals as possible.

According to Offchain Labs, Stylus’s increased efficiency and broader language compatibility might be useful for applications requiring a great deal of processing power in fields like social media and gaming. Stylus’s interoperability with the WASM programming language is a key factor in its ability to speed up calculations.

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