Einstein: "We want to be able to make something that is 100% generic, but also really easy to develop on" With substrate, it's not enough to have pluggable consensus. We want pluggable runtime. And so this is the real lesson. So substrate is basically a necessary artifact necessary consequence of wanting to make things as generic as I could," he says.
We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing.
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