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Candid Library for the Internet Computer

Stars: 301
Forks: 85
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 52
Avg merge: 1h 4m
Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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52 open issues indexed

didc bind --target mo: emit PascalCase type names (Motoko convention) Open

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dfinity/candid#733 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Export `DataSize` trait Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

dfinity/candid#706 · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Add a proc-macro for a string principal constant Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#691 · Opened Dec 1, 2025
Error after switching from version 0.10.14 to version 0.10.16 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

dfinity/candid#666 · Opened Aug 2, 2025
`didc bind -t rs-agent` does not load custom configuration files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#651 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Bug in type inference when parsing textual representation without known types Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#630 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Cargo audit showing issue with latest Candid Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#611 · Opened Jun 6, 2025
perf: Subtype checking should not perform quadratic traversal Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

dfinity/candid#603 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Nat & Int do not support binary encoders Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#599 · Opened Feb 25, 2025
"Recursion limit exceeded at depth 1" in TEE Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#596 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Ability to make non-anonymous calls with Candid UI Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

dfinity/candid#585 · Opened Dec 10, 2024
eslint no-unused-var for generated JS and TS types Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#573 · Opened Sep 10, 2024
As a CDK author and Azle developer, I want to import the automatically generated IDL objects so that I can use them in Azle Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#569 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2024
subtype check should return all breaking changes Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#551 · 1 comment · Opened May 22, 2024
error Unsafe argument of type `any[]` assigned to a parameter of type `Type<any>[]` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#549 · Opened May 12, 2024
Candid UI: Browser window crashed when pulling in 2MB by query call Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

dfinity/candid#539 · Opened Mar 21, 2024
As a developer, I want to enable II login locally so that I can easily interact with canisters from different IDs Open

enhancement

dfinity/candid#533 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 4, 2024
As a USER, I want to see a link to the GitHub repo so that I can look at the code Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#520 · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Support parsing inf/nan for float type Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#499 · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 4, 2023
As a developer, I want to extend config for header in rust bindings Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#495 · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Allow identity provider `identity.ic0.app` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#483 · Opened Oct 19, 2023
Add II login to Candid UI for authenticated calls Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#474 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2023
As a developer, I want to be able to customize the code generated by didc so that I don't have to do so with a sed script. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

dfinity/candid#473 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2023
CandidType derived on Enums gives an unused variable warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#468 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2023
export_service! does not respect modules Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#459 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2023
Preserve comments when generating language bindings Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#393 · 1 comment · 10 reactions · Opened Nov 18, 2022
export_service! macro should correctly name records wrapped in `ManualReply`s Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

dfinity/candid#375 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2022
As a guy who fills in `blob` fields, I want the GUI to offer a button so that I can specify a Candid value there and it gets automatically encoded Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#372 · Opened Aug 26, 2022
Making future types renameable Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#337 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2022
Spec: Future function annotations Open

dfinity/candid#318 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 19, 2022
As a JS user, I want to be able to pass Array<Number>, Blob, or ArrayBuffer for blobs Open

enhancement JavaScript

dfinity/candid#308 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 5, 2022
JavaScript Ergonomics Open

enhancement

dfinity/candid#300 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 9, 2021
Add implementation of CandidType for serde_json::Value Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dfinity/candid#259 · Opened Jul 9, 2021
Candid to Rust binding Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#255 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2021
Feature Idea: Generic data Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

dfinity/candid#245 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2021
Candid UI: Use `blob` shorthand Open

Candid UI enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#229 · Opened May 20, 2021
didc panics if I redirect output to a file with `<(...)` syntax Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

dfinity/candid#227 · Opened May 10, 2021
Provide release binaries for common operating systems and architectures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dfinity/candid#225 · Opened May 2, 2021
Rust library: Optimize `Vec` of certain types Open

enhancement Rust

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#224 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2021
docs: Add command-line usage examples to the Candid reference section Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

dfinity/candid#213 · Opened Mar 26, 2021
The HTTP Query Spec has a `Token` value in it that needs to be either generic or `any` Open

enhancement

dfinity/candid#208 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 17, 2021
(a) `Nat` <: `Int`, (b) `(Nat|Int)N <: (Nat|Int)M` where N < M, and (c) text format should use smallest necessary type Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#203 · 15 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2021
actor t <: principal Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

dfinity/candid#191 · Opened Feb 25, 2021
Add Typescript mapping to the Supported types reference section in the Candid guide Open

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dfinity/candid#190 · Opened Feb 24, 2021
What is “completeness of subtyping” Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dfinity/candid#132 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 3, 2020
As a user, I want to see more context for deserialization errors so that debugging is faster Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#122 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2020
Feature Request: the Candid Web UI should label input fields with arg name in addition to type when available Open

dfinity/candid#383 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2020
C API for Candid Open

dfinity/candid#382 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2020
Support serde rename_all Open

enhancement Rust

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dfinity/candid#66 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2020
Candid UI: allow ENTER to be pressed in fields to trigger query/call Open

dfinity/candid#384 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 17, 2020

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