Launching Canton IDE
globalSyncForum9 messagesstarted 11-03-2026
Hey,
We are releasing the Canton IDE and its free for everyone to use 🙌
Current canton dev experience is not really good as we all know. endless docs and little to no proper tooling
we took it upon ourselves to fix that and this is us trying
all we ask is your support, try it share it tell us whats broken
also created a telegram channel for canton devs where you can ask questions and ill be pushing all updates on our upcoming tools and releases there (alot of things in the pipeline)
just trying to build a better dev ecosystem for canton :)
try the beta here - https://ide.blockdudes.com
join the telegram - https://t.me/canton_devs
Thanks,
Amrit
CEO
Blockdudes- IDEs in itself are in a process of dying, especially specialized IDEs when you have generic ones like VSCode. Most people are writing code with Claude or Codex, without an IDE open.
IMO if you are keen to keep building this, my feedback would be you are better off making a VSCode Extension. One already exists called DAML, but not sure how updated it is.
Or better yet, create agentic SKILLs.md and other agentic workflows for development instead.
Best,Erick - toggle quoted message Show quoted textAmrit, I think Erick's feedback is right on. The ecosystem is advancing quickly and it would be good for us all to leverage one another's strengths.The current VSCode Daml extension can benefit from your team's insights and skill if you were to build on top of it. It is kept current and tested with new features which are being rolled out quickly and this would mean duplicating the efforts in different IDEs.Happy to have a conversation. Feel free to DM me.On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM eho via lists.sync.global <eho=send.it@...> wrote:IDEs in itself are in a process of dying, especially specialized IDEs when you have generic ones like VSCode. Most people are writing code with Claude or Codex, without an IDE open.
IMO if you are keen to keep building this, my feedback would be you are better off making a VSCode Extension. One already exists called DAML, but not sure how updated it is.
Or better yet, create agentic SKILLs.md and other agentic workflows for development instead.
Best,Erick--
Curtis Hrischuk curtis.hrischuk@... Principal Technical
Product ManagerCreators of Canton Network 
This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.digitalasset.com/emaildisclaimer.html. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message. - Our main focus is to allow devs to build, test and deploy easily on Cantonright now we have a simpler daml project structure, webide where you don't have to install or setup anything to start building on canton, and some other features like easily deploy on localnet or package registry for popular dar depsfor experienced canton devs it may not be making that much sense to use it right nowbut our future vision is not just limited to thisI don't believe we should vibe code Daml contracts but handcraft them because this is very important business logic where and each and every line matters and also number of lines written in daml is not that hugeso rather than using AI for writing daml code we will be using it to think how to break it by thinking various scenarios and writing test code for the sameand you can also prompt the scenarios you have in mind, it will code and try everything to make your code more securebut yeah still I really like using cursor auto complete but in daml it just doesn't work because ofc they focus on popular languagesmy team is quite experienced in training AI models too and we can build a really good autocomplete that will be much better than cursor one for damlthere are various other things like we will allow to easily build data indexer like subgraphs we have in ethereum, or don't have to deploy localnet on docker, have better debugging tools and much moreso our vision is broad and when implemented it will make much sense
also one more thing a lot of the things we are building like native DAML lsp, AI autocomplete, etc. can be added in vscodewe are not and will not be pushing people to just use the web ide, we want to let everyone use the tools they are best comfortable with, this is our main focus right making the dev experience better not worsesoon if we get support from Canton Foundation we will be releasing a lot of toolsso what I recommend is try the webide if it makes sense to you for some workflow, you should use it and we will be building everything mainly for the webide because it gives us a more creative canvasbut some tools will also work good with other ide so we will release them sometime later for them too - toggle quoted message Show quoted textReplacing an IDE that may people are familiar with is counter to the adoption process. As a creature of habit I use VS Code for some languages and Spyder for others. I wouldn’t want another IDE. I would look at what Foundry has done for ethereum in terms of local testing and simulations as more useful tools
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Subject: Re: [global-synchronizer] Launching Canton IDEAmrit, I think Erick's feedback is right on. The ecosystem is advancing quickly and it would be good for us all to leverage one another's strengths.
The current VSCode Daml extension can benefit from your team's insights and skill if you were to build on top of it. It is kept current and tested with new features which are being rolled out quickly and this would mean duplicating the efforts in different IDEs.
Happy to have a conversation. Feel free to DM me.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM eho via lists.sync.global <eho=send.it@...> wrote:
IDEs in itself are in a process of dying, especially specialized IDEs when you have generic ones like VSCode. Most people are writing code with Claude or Codex, without an IDE open.
IMO if you are keen to keep building this, my feedback would be you are better off making a VSCode Extension. One already exists called DAML, but not sure how updated it is.
Or better yet, create agentic SKILLs.md and other agentic workflows for development instead.
Best,Erick
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Curtis Hrischuk curtis.hrischuk@... Principal Technical
Product ManagerCreators of Canton Network
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You might also want to take a look at
https://damlstudio.tenzro.network —an AI-assisted, cloud-based
development environment for DAML and Canton development, with a
built-in sandbox for contract simulation.
Curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks
Hilal - For me the IDE migration cost is high because I already have a setup that I polished over the years (I went from vim -> emacs + jetbrain -> cursor + ai cli tool), so I would prefer to keep using my current IDE.My other concern is with browser-based IDE, I don't feel comfortable sharing my code and dev credentials with a 3rd party server.But I think people might find your IDE useful for workshop or hackathon: the attendees don't have to download or install anything to try out coding and running daml code, it will redue the frictions for sure.
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Looks great for those who want a quick start. Thanks for sharing, Hilal.
An AI-assisted cloud environment with a built-in sandbox for contract simulation sounds quite useful, especially for onboarding new developers to DAML and Canton. I’ll definitely take a closer look.
Murat İnceer
Founder & CEO, Rapid Chain
12 Mart 2026 07:13, "Hilal Agil via lists.sync.global" <hilal=tenzro.com@...> yazdı:
Hey guys,
You might also want to take a look at
https://damlstudio.tenzro.network —an AI-assisted, cloud-based
development environment for DAML and Canton development, with a
built-in sandbox for contract simulation.
Curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks
Hilal - HiUnfortunately not accessible from inside controlled environments as the URL is not categorised:
https://sitelookup.mcafee.com/en/feedback/urlRegardsVijay
