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>Solidity/EVM is by far the worst programming environment I have ever encountered. It would be impossible to write even toy programs correctly in this language, yet it is literally called "Solidity" and used to program a financial system that manages hundreds of millions of dollars.
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@moonman >not being a skeleton
>not writing your own blockchain algo and network development code-
@rw @moonman >floating point financial applications
someone forgot to walk their animal today so they went on HN to distribute a Bad Opinion-
@eris @rw That was the only really wrong part I saw. There are entire architectures without floating point. fixed precision is the norm for financial applications.
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@rw @eris well also, the person says that strings are useless, when in practice, the purpose of strings in Solidity is when you want to store a string in the blockchain. RW and I are using strings and they are perfectly functional for our purposes.
The person's criticisms are good where they are focused on the confusing language and bad defaults and poor implementation
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@moonman Well, if my position with County of REDACTED is any indication, the more vital the task the worse the tools.
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@moonman in the future, the entire global financial system will run on what is basically JavaScript... The horror...
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@hector hahaha no it won't. oh please god.
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