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> It is interesting to see but I think Solidity is the first software language/framework that people with no experience writing it or running it, comment and wr

by knocte 9y ago

> It is interesting to see but I think Solidity is the first software language/framework that people with no experience writing it or running it, comment and write about it on hackernews as if they did. It's interesting to see how the first virtualmachine specification for the first financial smart contract platform has overlooked all the pitfalls of the language-design industry and it doesn't look that a redesign is going to be addressed very soon because of the difficulty of the redeployment (as naturally backwards compatibility must be the first concern). > Its hard to read the "I told you so replies", when the price of ETH has remained relatively stable during the news Haha, so if the price is stable, this means that Solidity is not embarrassing? I'm sorry but this just means that people only care about security when their funds are the ones affected. Not about "potential" security problems or "design flaws" which sound too technical to them.

ojr 9y ago
The language was not made from "scratch" but a progression from bitcoin scripts, Ethereum is the like to blockchain dev like Unity is to gamedev, it lowers the barrier to entry, it has a lot of the similar apis and functions as bitcoin, I don't really consider this a bad thing
- int_19h 9y ago
  Do we really want to lower barrier to entry for writing code that can misdirect $30 million dollars just like that? By the way, I went and looked at the offending contract. The pull request that introduced the line with the bug added 2228 new lines of code while removing 918 lines. In fact, the diff is so large that GitHub doesn't even show parts of it by default (including the part with the bug). The pull request was reviewed by a single other person, and committed on the same day it was submitted. I don't think I'm comfortable with the barrier being that low, at all.
  - peternicky 9y ago
    Can you please link to this pull request?
    - int_19h 9y ago
      https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blame/4c32177ef3f4521c663113749400f5a8b6f0e0d4/js/src/contracts/snippets/enhanced-wallet.sol#L216 https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blame/4c32177ef3f4521c6...
  - ojr 9y ago
    it was missing one keyword that was the parity bug not in the 2228 lines, and the DAO hack had a line that was place 3 lines too early, a monetary system created 3 years ago and is highly demanded might have some growing pains

by knocte 9y ago

ojr 9y ago

The language was not made from "scratch" but a progression from bitcoin scripts, Ethereum is the like to blockchain dev like Unity is to gamedev, it lowers the barrier to entry, it has a lot of the similar apis and functions as bitcoin, I don't really consider this a bad thing

int_19h 9y ago
Do we really want to lower barrier to entry for writing code that can misdirect $30 million dollars just like that? By the way, I went and looked at the offending contract. The pull request that introduced the line with the bug added 2228 new lines of code while removing 918 lines. In fact, the diff is so large that GitHub doesn't even show parts of it by default (including the part with the bug). The pull request was reviewed by a single other person, and committed on the same day it was submitted. I don't think I'm comfortable with the barrier being that low, at all.
- peternicky 9y ago
  Can you please link to this pull request?
  - int_19h 9y ago
    https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blame/4c32177ef3f4521c663113749400f5a8b6f0e0d4/js/src/contracts/snippets/enhanced-wallet.sol#L216 https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blame/4c32177ef3f4521c6...
- ojr 9y ago
  it was missing one keyword that was the parity bug not in the 2228 lines, and the DAO hack had a line that was place 3 lines too early, a monetary system created 3 years ago and is highly demanded might have some growing pains