macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install cadencelocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install cadence with Homebrew, zypper
Resource-oriented smart contract programming language. Version 1.10.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install Cadence.
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Linux
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install CadenceopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · Cadence · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Resource-oriented smart contract programming language
Project links
Commands and aliases
- cadence
history
Project history and usage
Cadence is the resource-oriented smart contract language for the Flow network. It is designed around static typing, linear-resource ownership, capability-based access control, preconditions and postconditions, and readability for audit-heavy blockchain programs.
Project history
The Cadence repository says the language has been open source since 2019 and is the native smart contract language of Flow. Official docs present it as a high-level language created to make digital assets first-class resources: values can be moved but not accidentally copied, lost, or implicitly destroyed.
Cadence draws syntax and safety ideas from Swift, Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, Solidity, Move, and design-by-contract traditions while targeting Flow's account-storage model. The v1.0.0 release states that Cadence 1.0 culminated five years of work since inception, with no more planned breaking changes, full forward compatibility, entitlements, attachments, and storage/performance improvements.
Adoption history
Cadence adoption follows Flow adoption: developers use it to write and deploy Flow smart contracts, transactions, and scripts. The README points users to the browser playground, Flow CLI, Flow emulator, VS Code extension, Cadence language reference, and Flow developer portal.
Flow ecosystem examples in the README include consumer applications such as NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, Disney Pinnacle, and Ticketmaster NFT ticketing, making Cadence notable as a domain-specific package for production blockchain applications rather than a general-purpose language runtime.
How it is used
Package users typically install the cadence command to run, parse, test, or work with Cadence code locally, while end-to-end Flow development usually also involves Flow CLI, the emulator, contracts, transactions, and the Cadence Playground. The language itself is used for smart contracts and transaction code stored and executed on Flow.
Why package nerds care
Cadence is interesting to package nerds because it packages a language implementation for a blockchain runtime, not just a compiler. It brings together parser, interpreter/runtime, language server and tooling expectations, versioned language migrations, and network compatibility concerns around Flow's on-chain execution model.
Timeline
- 2019: Cadence is open sourced and begins as Flow's resource-oriented smart contract language.
- 2022: v0.24 Secure Cadence becomes a major pre-1.0 milestone referenced by the v1.0 release.
- 2024-09-26: Cadence v1.0.0 is released, marking no more planned breaking changes.
- 2026: README reports Cadence 1.0 live on Flow mainnet with v1.10.x releases.
Related projects
- Related projects include the Flow network, Flow CLI, Flow emulator, Cadence Playground, the VS Code Cadence extension, Atree storage library, and Flow Improvement Proposals. Conceptually, Cadence is often compared with Solidity and Move.
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security posture
Risk level: yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime
Why
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signals
- text:programming language
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cadence | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.10.5
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:cadence |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.10.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://cadence-lang.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/onflow/cadence |
| Last updated | 2026-07-25T14:20:48-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
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zypper95%
Cadence 0.9.2-2.11
A JACK Audio Toolbox
https://kx.studio/Applications:Cadence
sudo zypper install Cadence- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Utilities
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: Cadence
- 13 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Cadence
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