Replace ethers with Viem?

[dudo50]

We have received a request to replace Ethers with Viem which is much faster than Ethers and more space efficient but the Snowbridge API we implement uses Ethers as a Dependency so we are unable to proceed. Would Snowbridge consider moving to Viem library for EVM tasks? Many thanks for your answers in advance!

With kind regards,
Team ParaSpell✨

Associated links:
paraspell/xcm-tools#329
https://viem.sh/docs/introduction

[alistair-singh]

Hey @dudo50, this is something that we will look into however it is not simple as we have teams that depend on our ethers implementation. So we will need to be able to support both.

[dudo50]

@alistair-singh totally understood. It is hard to migrate such important dependency. The project should have been built on the other one to begin with so other teams would have adopted it during implementation already. However for speed improvements at least please look into it and if possible please consider supporting both. Thanks!

With kind regards,
Team ParaSpell✨