W26 BDK Language Bindings Dev Call

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See proposed agenda here.

[thunderbiscuit]

Bitcoindevkit Language Bindings Dev Call

📆 June 28, 2022 13:00 UTC
📍 Discord General Voice Channel

Discussion Items

• bdk-kotlin 0.7.0 and bdk-swift 0.4.0 are out! 🎉
• FFI 0.7.0 brings in a ton of new stuff:
  • Send to multiple recipients
  • "Send all" functionality with drain_wallet() and drain_to()
  • Replace-by-Fee
  • Partial signatures on PSBTs
  • Separate blockchain from wallet
  • Taproot!!
• Uniffi-rs moving to macros to build bindings (see ya UDL file!)
• Supporting tests and examples for Kotlin (looking for a Swift version)
• Suspending API docs for bdk-kotlin and bdk-jvm, writing migration guides
• We'll try and follow bdk releases for the next FFI release (0.20.0 released on 13th of July, FFI coming out on the week of the 20th)
• I'd like to organize a hacking session for bdk-rn and bdk-flutter (maybe separate sessions?)
• WASM
• Any review begs? 🙏
• Blockers? 🪨

Dependent Projects and Support

• Padawan Wallet

Top Issues and PRs

(ffi) MERGED: Add OP_RETURN to TxBuilder
(ffi) OPEN: Add sign / verify for arbitrary messages (consider closing in favour of upstream bdk #601)
(ffi) OPEN: Add child key pair generation api
(ffi) OPEN: Add Wallet list_unspent method

(kotlin) MERGED: Add armeabi-v7a support

(python) OPEN: Update library to FFI version 0.7.0

Boards

FFI project board
Kotlin project board
Swift project board
Python project board