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   moonman

   >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.
   
   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212

   Wednesday, 19-Jul-17 23:49:13 UTC from shitposter.club
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     rw

     @moonman >not being a skeleton
     >not writing your own blockchain algo and network development code

     Wednesday, 19-Jul-17 23:52:41 UTC in context
   • Scribus

     @moonman Well, if my position with County of REDACTED is any indication, the more vital the task the worse the tools.

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 00:38:46 UTC in context
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     hector

     @moonman in the future, the entire global financial system will run on what is basically JavaScript... The horror...

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 01:02:48 UTC in context
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     moonman hector

     @hector hahaha no it won't. oh please god.

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 01:03:34 UTC in context
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     eris rw

     @rw @moonman >floating point financial applications
     
     someone forgot to walk their animal today so they went on HN to distribute a Bad Opinion

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 14:13:41 UTC in context
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     moonman rw , eris

     @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.

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 16:01:01 UTC in context
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     moonman rw , eris

     @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

     Thursday, 20-Jul-17 16:08:58 UTC in context