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title: Visión general de Clarity
description: Resumen y guías para comenzar con Clarity
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## Introducción

Clarity is a **decidable** smart contract language that optimizes for predictability and security, designed for the Stacks blockchain. Smart contracts allow developers to encode essential business logic on a blockchain.

## Contratos inteligentes

Smart contracts encode and enforce rules for modifying a particular set of data that is shared among people and entities who don't necessarily trust each other. For example, a smart contract can hold funds in escrow until multiple parties agree to release them, create its own ledger and keep track of its own novel tokens (fungible or non-fungible), and even help make supply chains more transparent.

A smart contract execution can result in new transactions being written to the blockchain. Because smart contracts are programs that exist in a blockchain, anyone can query them, and anyone can submit transactions to execute them.

Apps can take advantage of smart contracts to manage a global state that is visible to the public. Anyone can audit the blockchain to independently verify that an app's global shared state has been managed correctly according to the smart contract's rules.

There is a [Clarity Visual Studio Code plugin][] available for syntax assistance and debugging.

## Casos de uso

Not every decentralized application requires smart contracts, but Clarity unlocks interesting capabilities for decentralized applications. Examples of use cases include, but are not limited to:

- Access control (for example pay to access)
- Non-fungible (for example collectibles) and fungible tokens (for example stablecoins)
- Plantillas de modelo de negocio (por ejemplo suscripciones)
- App-specific blockchains
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

## Diseño del lenguaje

Clarity differs from most other smart contract languages in two essential ways:

- The language is interpreted and broadcast on the blockchain as is (not compiled)
- The language is decidable (not Turing complete)

Using an interpreted language ensures that the executed code is human-readable and auditable. A decidable language like Clarity makes it possible to determine precisely which code is executed, for any function.

A Clarity smart contract consists of two parts, a data space and a set of functions. Only the associated smart contract may modify its corresponding data space on the blockchain. Functions may be private and thus callable only from within the smart contract, or public and thus callable from other contracts. Users call smart contracts' public functions by broadcasting a transaction on the blockchain which invokes the public function. Contracts can also call public functions from other smart contracts.

Tenga en cuenta algunas de las reglas y limitaciones del lenguaje Clarity.

- The only primitive types are booleans, integers, buffers, and principals.
- Recursion is illegal and there are no anonymous functions.
- Looping is only performed via `map`, `filter`, or `fold`.
- There is support for lists, however, the only variable length lists in the language appear as function inputs; there is no support for list operations like append or join.
- Las variables son inmutables.

## Explorar más

Para más detalles y referencias del lenguaje, mira lo siguiente:

- [Clarity language overview](./clarity-language/)
- [Understating Principals](principals)
- [Valores de Clarity](values)

[Clarity Visual Studio Code plugin]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=HiroSystems.clarity-lsp
