Update README.md to point out rust-simplicity and simplicity-hl #307
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| Simplicity is a blockchain programming language designed as an alternative to Bitcoin script. | ||
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| The language and implementation is still under development. | ||
| The language and implementation is still under development. |
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| It's recommended to start with [SimplicityHL](https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/SimplicityHL) which looks and feels like Rust and compiles down to Simplicity Bytecode. There is also [rust-simplicity](https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/rust-simplicity), a general purpose library for processing Simplicity programs. |
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Recommend using active language -- "We recommend starting with". And I guess we should justify it a little bit. Suggested rewording:
Simplicity is a very low-level language. This repository contains the consensus code implementation, an experimental Haskell library, the tech report and the a Rocq library for producing formal proofs. We recommend that users who just want to *use* Simplicity start with [SimplicityHL](https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/SimplicityHL) which looks and feels like Rust and compiles down to Simplicity. There is also [rust-simplicity](https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/rust-simplicity), a general purpose library for processing Simplicity programs.
(Also dropped the word "bytecode" since technically speaking, Simplicity's encoding is bit-aligned, not byte-aligned.)
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