Would you prefer Solidity or a normal language to create your smart contracts?

[UDC]

Hi,

just wondering if people who develop smart contracts and decentralized apps would still use ethereum's Solidity or, given the opportunity, prefer C++, java or python directly and in a less restricted environment?

[dinofelis]

The best way to write a smart contract would be in a non-Turing complete language.

There's absolutely no reason why a *contract* would need a way to express potentially infinite loops or arbitrarily complex state trees.

[shyliar]

What languages do the Ethereum Platform competitors use? For example the platforms created by R3 (Corda), Eris Industries, Chain, IBM, Intel and Hyperledger. Solidarity might be one of the reasons that financial institutions are leaving Ethereum behind and testing/developing other products.

[UDC]

yeah seems like it, thanks for the input.

although eris industries (monax) seem to compile their VM according to the EVM.