Ethereum Smart Contract Development

Summary

Solidity is a work-in-progress yet well-documented language, being gradually developed as users face various problems while implementing smart contracts on the blockchain. In this chapter, we have covered a few fundamental aspects of this new language. We started off with praising JavaScript and how it has evolved as a robust language for web development. Solidity has been chosen for the blockchain on this legacy. Then we moved on to see various nuances this language has to offer us with its new concept of contract-oriented programming. We then nose-dived into the solidity optimizer's inner workings, and explored debugging options using events and bare-bone assembly opcodes. We closed the chapter by discussing and analyzing the Parity ...