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So you prefer the state of affairs with a language with arguably less safety than C _and_ many more amateurish implementation errors? I wish Etherium had chose
by KirinDave 9y ago
So you prefer the state of affairs with a language with arguably less safety than C _and_ many more amateurish implementation errors?
I wish Etherium had chosen Javascript. It'd have started from a better place.
- flunhat 9y agoI totally agree with you about Solidity. If you're interested in developing a better language for smart contracts, check out Viper (https://github.com/ethereum/viper https://github.com/ethereum/viper). Although development is kind of slow right now because Vitalik is the only one who merges pull requests.
- KirinDave 9y agoI'm not sure I trust that team at all. Quite frankly, I think Etherium is a shameless powergrab by a bunch of folks who's sole positive contribution to the medium is growing it. It's a tribute to the essentially unskilled & uninformed investors and inventors in many parts of the blockchain ecosystem that Eth has been allowed to grow at all. It's a great idea for the owners of Eth and a terrible idea for everyone, everyone, EVERYONE else (except maybe certain classes of miners). I've got 0 interest in contributing my time to a system that will only be used to extract wealth from other people's good ideas while simultaneously welding them to a release calendar that keeps them at the back of the pack of blockchain software. If I wanted to pitch in with that, zcash is way more competent anyways. You don't standardize to a platform at the beginning of a boom. You standardize to protocols. And that is, by the way, exactly what every competent programmer is doing; standardizing on the protocols laid out by bitcoin as they develop their own chains and experiment with new, cheaper ways to sustain a digital currency.