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Solidity Alive

Solidity
KindProgramming language
Appeared2014
StatusAlive
CreatorGavin Wood et al / Ethereum
FamilyC
Sourcedocs.soliditylang.org ↗

The contract language of Ethereum — curly braces for smart contracts; billions in losses taught it the value of formal methods.

Created by Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood's Solidity (2014) — Ethereum's contract language — made 'code is money' literal: smart contracts, the EVM, and the entire DeFi ecosystem run on it.\n\nReentrancy bugs and the DAO hack taught it hard lessons; it's the most consequential language most programmers never write.

Sources

  1. docs.soliditylang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity