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by slackingoff2017 3249 days ago
It's not just the templates, Solidity is a terribly designed language. It reminds me of the original JavaScript before 10+ years of dedicated attempts to make it usable.

With how many VM's we already have for Java and JavaScript it's idiotic that ETH designed their own language and eventually they will pay the price. This will probably be another coin that comes along without an idiotic language/VM
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AYBABTME 3249 days ago
fwiw the VM's instruction set seems just fine, the problem entirely lies within the crap programming languages available at this time. This seems to all be fixable if someone comes around and designs a language that makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
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UncleMeat 3249 days ago
The VM also has severe problems. Whether or not you are required to check exceptions at a call site depends on how you call a function, for example. It also does not have a monotonically increasing time value, since operations are allowed to manipulate the clock time up to some value.
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zkSNARK 3249 days ago
Isn't this the purpose of lisk?
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