John Adler (Fuel Labs, Celestia) on building the fastest modular execution layer (EP.307)
On The Brink with Castle Island
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Solidity Is the Dominant Smarcontac Language in the Therm Space
The reason solidity is the dominant smarcontac language in the therm space is not because solidity is good. It's because everything else is worse, and especially the tooling around everything other is worse. Like how many other smart contract languages really exist? There's viper. I guess that doesn't even allow you to have libraries, right? The tooling around this is non existent. You can't write anything with ita. But what ar the marcojac languages exist? The answer is not many. And the ones that do exist don't have any tooling support. A language without tooling is useless.
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