[motet_a]

But why do Ethereum people maintain a custom programming language? This could easily add a huge amount of complexity (and security issues) with very few benefits.

Moreover, maintaining a large and critical project without automated tests seems impossible to me.

[Rmilb]

They needed a language to compile to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

Stack exchange with more info. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3112/what-is-th...

[wslh]

The problem here is that you are handling a ton of money and it is irresponsible to manage a project in this way. More thinking that many people, including developers, in the community are millionaires, so it is not a resource problem. When you send a rocket to the space you also test it against ETs.

[Rmilb]

Valid points. The project is not production ready yet. One of the main devs has a good explaination of his tweet stating:

>"Ethereum isn't safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don't rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!"

https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/about-my-tweet-from-yesterda...

[kbody]

He's probably the only one, it's a surprise they haven't ostracised him already. (Btw your response is close to step #3 on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838148 :P )

At least Vitalik & Gavin Woods in combination with Joe Lubin (Consensys & Ethereum Foundation) keep pushing it without any talks about reality, but just sell unproven future ideas while they train people and manufacture ICOs (less so after the SEC) and sell Ethereum to dumb enterprise that drunk the cool-aid.

[atomical]

There are no rollbacks so it will never be production ready for 99% of businesses.

[eyezick]

Vlad isn't a dev fyi, and he pretty much does say his tweet was hyperbolic intentionally to temper the crazy bullishness of the time