Hmm; my concern is that it results in a polarisation of the skill levels of the developers writing smart contracts. There seems to be a lot of hype and demand

Hmm; my concern is that it results in a polarisation of the skill levels of the developers writing smart contracts. There seems to be a lot of hype and demand around blockchain tech at the moment, and hence a lot of demand for developers to pick up the tech. For the skilled and experienced developers who work with blockchain tech these kinds of events will make them think more about what they're doing and probably take more care. For those of us with lots of programming experience but no knowledge of blockchain tech, they serve as a warning that there are serious issues with the platform that need deep experience (and hence time investment) to address properly. That leaves a tranche of less experienced developers who maybe don't realise that these issues mean they should take more care (or use better tooling, or whatever other panacea is called for to make development 'safe'). The platform may finish up with a small number of experienced developers writing 'safe' code and a larger number of inexperienced developers writing 'unsafe' code, with the result that the platform as a whole finishes up being unsafe. As the article says: > Most of the programmers who are getting into this space, myself included, come from a web development background, and the blockchain toolchain is designed to be familiar for web developers. [...] In a way, this may end up being its downfall. > The problem is, blockchain programming is fundamentally different from web development.