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> Hackernews hates Ethereum It does? I admit I'm pretty ignorant of the nuances of all the little alt coins, but I know Ethereum has something to do with dist
by loxias 9y ago
> Hackernews hates Ethereum
It does? I admit I'm pretty ignorant of the nuances of all the little alt coins, but I know Ethereum has something to do with distributed applications, with a VM, and I've always thought that cool in the abstract. (though I have no idea what I'd do with it.)
Just probing for information, not trying to have any "tone", do you know what the distaste for Ethereum is rooted in?
- bringtheaction 9y agoI never got the impression that HN “hates” Ethereum, but I will say that the primary language used for writing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain has some disconcerting properties. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008 It is still not entirely clear to me how much of these things are problems with Solidity (name of said language) only, or if any of those issues are core to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) itself. I remain hopeful that other languages targeting the EVM will bring to fruition the full potential of Ethereum in a safer manner. https://medium.com/@Hibryda/why-solidity-isnt-solid-3341af77fc1c https://medium.com/@Hibryda/why-solidity-isnt-solid-3341af77... Also some people dislike the fact that Ethereum is executing every program for every message on every blockchain node. I agree that it would be better if it didn’t have to do so but I don’t know how it could be avoided in a distributed trustless system. https://www.multichain.com/blog/2015/11/smart-contracts-good-bad-lazy/ https://www.multichain.com/blog/2015/11/smart-contracts-good...
- UncleMeat 9y agoEVM has core semantics issues too that lead to easy to make errors.