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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum's EVM with RISC-V

• mellosouls 2y ago
  Archive link to original proposal (currently unavailable): https://web.archive.org/web/20250421002939/https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/long-term-l1-execution-layer-proposal-replace-the-evm-with-risc-v/23617 https://web.archive.org/web/20250421002939/https://ethereum-...
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• PaulHoule 2y ago
  Strikes me as fad-chasing. The EVM is already well-suited for writing smart contracts as it has many affordances for that https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/ https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/ particularly the cryptographic primitives which would be error-prone to code up from scratch. Granted EVM is not so great for general purpose programming, but Ethereum isn't a good environment to write video games, compilers, neural network trainers, gas costs and all.
  • brucehoult 2y ago
    > particularly the cryptographic primitives which would be error-prone to code up from scratch Why would anyone need to do that? They can be provided as a standard library to link with, or via `ECALL`.