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Does Solidity really matter, though? "How's the VM" is the real question. I haven't spent more then 10 minutes looking into it, but it seemed reasonable to me.
by pkulak 9y ago
Does Solidity really matter, though? "How's the VM" is the real question. I haven't spent more then 10 minutes looking into it, but it seemed reasonable to me. No heap and 256(?)-bit addressing seem like good ideas to keep execution complexity down.
- tachyonbeam 9y agoIt does matter if the use of Solidity is being actively promoted. Sure, maybe you're smart and you'll pick safer options, but if a huge percentage of contracts are written in Solidity, it could still mean there are massive security holes everywhere.
- UncleMeat 9y agoThe VM is also fucked (or, at least it was in the recent past) because it turns out that their semantics are a mess. For example, exception handling is either implicit or explicit depending on how a method is invoked! https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633 https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633