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Re:On Web3 Infrastructure by grumpyprole on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:38AM (#29861504)
> could help democratize how they get implemented

Was there any democratic process when "Solidity" was designed? Unfortunately, it does not appear to me that the right experts have been involved and that there was peer review. It looks like it was thrown over a wall, much like JavaScript was.

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Re:On Web3 Infrastructure by mattdesl on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:10PM (#29866352)
cue xkcd “14 competing standards” comic.

one reason there are so many blockchains is because they are all taking different development approaches and tradeoffs.

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