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But why do Ethereum people maintain a custom programming language? This could easily add a huge amount of complexity (and security issues) with very few benefit

But why do Ethereum people maintain a custom programming language? This could easily add a huge amount of complexity (and security issues) with very few benefits. Moreover, maintaining a large and critical project without automated tests seems impossible to me.

Rmilb 9y ago
They needed a language to compile to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Stack exchange with more info. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3112/what-is-the-merit-of-creating-new-smart-contract-languages-like-solidity-instead https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3112/what-is-th...
- wslh 9y ago
  The problem here is that you are handling a ton of money and it is irresponsible to manage a project in this way. More thinking that many people, including developers, in the community are millionaires, so it is not a resource problem. When you send a rocket to the space you also test it against ETs.
  - Rmilb 9y ago
    Valid points. The project is not production ready yet. One of the main devs has a good explaination of his tweet stating: >"Ethereum isn't safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don't rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!" https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/about-my-tweet-from-yesterday-dcc61915b572 https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/about-my-tweet-from-yesterda...
    - kbody 9y ago
      He's probably the only one, it's a surprise they haven't ostracised him already. (Btw your response is close to step #3 on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838148 :P ) At least Vitalik & Gavin Woods in combination with Joe Lubin (Consensys & Ethereum Foundation) keep pushing it without any talks about reality, but just sell unproven future ideas while they train people and manufacture ICOs (less so after the SEC) and sell Ethereum to dumb enterprise that drunk the cool-aid.
    - atomical 9y ago
      There are no rollbacks so it will never be production ready for 99% of businesses.
    - eyezick 9y ago
      Vlad isn't a dev fyi, and he pretty much does say his tweet was hyperbolic intentionally to temper the crazy bullishness of the time

Rmilb 9y ago

They needed a language to compile to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Stack exchange with more info. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3112/what-is-the-merit-of-creating-new-smart-contract-languages-like-solidity-instead https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3112/what-is-th...

wslh 9y ago
The problem here is that you are handling a ton of money and it is irresponsible to manage a project in this way. More thinking that many people, including developers, in the community are millionaires, so it is not a resource problem. When you send a rocket to the space you also test it against ETs.
- Rmilb 9y ago
  Valid points. The project is not production ready yet. One of the main devs has a good explaination of his tweet stating: >"Ethereum isn't safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don't rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!" https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/about-my-tweet-from-yesterday-dcc61915b572 https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/about-my-tweet-from-yesterda...
  - kbody 9y ago
    He's probably the only one, it's a surprise they haven't ostracised him already. (Btw your response is close to step #3 on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838148 :P ) At least Vitalik & Gavin Woods in combination with Joe Lubin (Consensys & Ethereum Foundation) keep pushing it without any talks about reality, but just sell unproven future ideas while they train people and manufacture ICOs (less so after the SEC) and sell Ethereum to dumb enterprise that drunk the cool-aid.
  - atomical 9y ago
    There are no rollbacks so it will never be production ready for 99% of businesses.
  - eyezick 9y ago
    Vlad isn't a dev fyi, and he pretty much does say his tweet was hyperbolic intentionally to temper the crazy bullishness of the time