Dapper Labs – the firm creating of CryptoKitties and the Flow Blockchain – has reportedly disclosed details about its newly formed alliance with Facebook’s Libra stablecoin project, to initiate tech sharing. 

Specifically, Dieter Shirley – CTO for Dapper Lab – reportedly revealed that the integration of Libra’s Move into Dapper’s Flow blockchain will be finalized, to help it function as its virtual machine (VM), and in return, Libra will be able to use Dapper’s smart contract programming language Cadence.

Shirley believed that the performance efficiency from Move will reportedly give Flow a distinctive advantage, and Libra will be able to utilize Cadence’s developer-friendly design.

Dapper Labs had reportedly been investing resources into designing Cadence for around 12 months prior to its release, via its developer playground. Cadence was built, on the foundation of linear type theory,  with a primary goal to provide facilitating support for smart contract-focused optimal ease of use and performance.

“Move was the first resource-oriented programming language, but it is designed for performance rather than readability and ease-of-use. Cadence, on the other hand, was designed for usability first, with syntax inspired by Swift and Rust.” Shirley reportedly claimed.

“The Libra team started with performance optimization, [however,] knew that eventually, they were going to need an ergonomic syntax that was easy to understand but were going to do that second. We knew that we were going to need a highly efficient runtime with a low-level, highly optimized VM. But we were going to do that second. And so we’ve each done the other’s second-half.”