Development tools and clients
There are a number of tools available for Ethereum development. The following diagram shows the taxonomy of various development tools, clients, IDEs, and development frameworks for Ethereum:
Taxonomy of Ethereum ecosystem components
In this chapter, the main focus will be on geth, browser solidity, solidity, solc, and truffle. Rest of the elements will be discussed briefly.
Languages
Contracts can be programmed in a variety of languages. There are four languages that can be used in order to write contracts:
- Mutan: This is a Go-style language, which was deprecated in early 2015 and is no longer used.
- LLL: This is a Lisp-like ...
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