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There were tons of techniques to preserve home-made foods - canning, vacuum drying, salt curing, fermentation, etc. - and then someone invented the fridge. What

There were tons of techniques to preserve home-made foods - canning, vacuum drying, salt curing, fermentation, etc. - and then someone invented the fridge. What is widely adopted? As an average developer, I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum. I have no idea in earth how to even start writing those things on classic blockchains, let alone prove they work as I expect.

ApplaudPumice 11y ago
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum. Have you done this before? I tried to learn Ethereum (as an average developer) but it was over my head.
- jarsin 11y ago
  here is the a basic example. https://ethereum.org/greeter https://ethereum.org/greeter more in depth tutorials exist on ethereum.org
  - bryanrasmussen 11y ago
    as far as the language goes - that is a very verbose "hello world". does the level of verbosity decrease as you get into more advanced applications?
    - whypeoplepeople 11y ago
      Not really, but dApps aren't supposed to have huge source codes. Much more important is having efficient and correct code, because each instruction your contract runs has a cost. If that really annoys you, there are other languages that can be used to build dApps, and more certainly to come.
knightofmars 11y ago
I think a better comparison would be "commercial mass production of preserved foods vs making them at home". For example, it is easier to buy a can of beans for cooking than it is to grow your own beans, can them, and then use them for cooking. The purchasing being analogous to using Ethereum and the growing and home-canning being analogous to classic blockchains.
repomies69 11y ago
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum. Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for the first smart contract that is actually useful for something.
- anonbanker 11y ago
  Never heard about Arcade City[0]? 0. https://arcade.city/ https://arcade.city/
pmarreck 11y ago
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum Where's the github gist for this?
- eterpstra 11y ago
  There's this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-c...
norswap 11y ago
In this metaphor, I expected Bitcoin to be canning and Ethereum to be vacuum drying.

ApplaudPumice 11y ago

> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum. Have you done this before? I tried to learn Ethereum (as an average developer) but it was over my head.

jarsin 11y ago
here is the a basic example. https://ethereum.org/greeter https://ethereum.org/greeter more in depth tutorials exist on ethereum.org
- bryanrasmussen 11y ago
  as far as the language goes - that is a very verbose "hello world". does the level of verbosity decrease as you get into more advanced applications?
  - whypeoplepeople 11y ago
    Not really, but dApps aren't supposed to have huge source codes. Much more important is having efficient and correct code, because each instruction your contract runs has a cost. If that really annoys you, there are other languages that can be used to build dApps, and more certainly to come.

knightofmars 11y ago

I think a better comparison would be "commercial mass production of preserved foods vs making them at home". For example, it is easier to buy a can of beans for cooking than it is to grow your own beans, can them, and then use them for cooking. The purchasing being analogous to using Ethereum and the growing and home-canning being analogous to classic blockchains.

repomies69 11y ago

> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum. Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for the first smart contract that is actually useful for something.

anonbanker 11y ago
Never heard about Arcade City[0]? 0. https://arcade.city/ https://arcade.city/

pmarreck 11y ago

> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum Where's the github gist for this?

eterpstra 11y ago
There's this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-c...

norswap 11y ago

In this metaphor, I expected Bitcoin to be canning and Ethereum to be vacuum drying.