# Install cadence with Homebrew, zypper Resource-oriented smart contract programming language. Version 1.10.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-02. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:cadence ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install cadence ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install Cadence ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: Cadence from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:cadence - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.10.4 - **Source summary:** Resource-oriented smart contract programming language - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-02T17:43:08Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - cadence (cli) - cadence (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.10.4 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-02 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/onflow/cadence - Upstream latest detected: v1.10.4 (current) ## 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. ### Sources - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes generalized runtime or code generation signal. - **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium - generalized runtime or code generation signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** cadence - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Conflicts With:** cadence-workflow - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - zypper - Cadence - 0.9.2-2.9: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: Cadence from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | A JACK Audio Toolbox | https://kx.studio/Applications:Cadence ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [agda](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/agda/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [algol68g](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/algol68g/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [ats2-postiats](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ats2-postiats/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [ballerina](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ballerina/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [chapel](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/chapel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [coconut](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/coconut/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [coffeescript](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/coffeescript/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [crystal](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/crystal/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, programming-language. - [solidity](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/solidity/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. 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