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nuclearspaceheater:

I was reading about Ethereum.

Solidity is the JavaScript-like programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

My intuitions are saying that the language should be functional, simple, high-level and damn well tested. Ideally it should also be close enough to natural language that it would be partially self-documenting and difficult to hide nasty tricks in. And it should have a strict syntax so that there’s only one correct way to do anything ever, and deviating from it would produce an obvious error instead of unexpected behavior and it would be noticed at “compile-time” so that the only programs that ever get to run are Correct.

I’m not an expert yet but these features sound like inspiration should be taken from the likes of Ada, Haskell, Python etc.

…so they chose javascript instead

what has the world done to deserve this

1 week ago · tagged #baby leet #software horrors · 53 notes · source: nuclearspaceheater · .permalink

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   A bug in an official Ethereum-dev wallet, that was just discovered a week ago, makes accounts that it created vulnerable...

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    Right. The “one right way to do things” philosophy actually goes back to (at least) Eiffel. I think I better way to...

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    Okay yes, my totally non-expert intuitions and vague guesses were corrected by people who know better (insert that...

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    In short:Etherium — shit language, “gotcha”-lawmaking, and assasination markets.Let’s go over to ColorCoin instead.

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    In fairness they seem to have copied the syntax (which might as well be C syntax) and not the interesting semantic...

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    Wat

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    Mmm yes and the new fork shall be developed solely by credentialed workers, we cannot have people like Brendan Eich, no...

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    we’re going to have to kill the entire software development industry and start over. hard fork hard fork hard fork

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