The EVM is teetering on obsolescence.
Wait. Isn’t this suppose to an EVM bull-post article? Yes, but practically speaking, the EVM ecosystem in it’s current state is still:
Too slow. Plagued by cumbersome UX. Suffering from questionable design choices. Experiencing culture rot from leadership down. Fractured in liquidity and divide on paths to scalability.
https://x.com/optimizoor/status/1874862503773216816
Fortunately, a great extent of the the design and UX issues of the past are solved or will soon be solved. EVM scalability is soon to be an issue of the past.
To be clear. This article serves one discerning purpose. To create the ultimate counter-psyop for you to reprogram your mind. Unlearn the slowness. Unlearn the pain. Unlearn 5-figure gas fees. The tech debt and engineering design issues have more or less been solved or are very close to being so. Culture rot aside, there truly is no richer design space than the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
TLDR; A decade of cracked engineering research doesn’t simply get eradicated from a market sentiment shift you bozo.
https://x.com/_hrkrshnn/status/1873137057587183860
A Rational Comparison - Javascript There’s no debating that solidity has plenty of kinks in its design, but so does the world’s most used programming language. Consider the following:
[Javascript / Solidity] is the language of early [web / smart contract] innovation. There is a massive ecosystem of [Javascript / Solidity] libraries and infra enabling the rich design of complex applications. ****For many early [web / smart contract developers], this was where they spent the brunt of their time in [web / smart contract] R&D that has resulted in many of the protocols we use today. Alternative options like [WebAssembly or Typescript / Vyper or Rust] for smart contract development (although one could say designed better) have yet to replace it.
You have no idea why you like it - you just do. It was your first love. Just like a fish-filet. Objectively shit quality ingredients - yet there’s just something magical that you keep coming back to. All this is to say in a very dumb way - look, Solidity is a language with plenty of bumps and warts, but hey it works. Not only does it work, but for nearly a decade it was and still is the backbone of smart contract innovation.
What about Rust EVM?
It’s pretty cool you can write EVM contracts in rust now such as via Arbitrum Stylus, but the tooling around revms is still weak relative to the depth of what’s available with just standard Solidity + EVM. Could revm tooling get better? Absolutely, and I hope it does, but the edge solidity has is still quite strong and I don’t anticipate it to weaken anytime soon.
https://x.com/PatrickAlphaC/status/1882018903796375910
The essence of evm/acc [evm accelerationism] is the belief that through optimizing the engineering and social layers of the EVM, we can enable developers and subsequently users to participate in the best possible design space for crypto innovation.
The EVM is richer and far more plentiful than any other ecosystem in:
[why evm/acc is needed]
[examples with each of the design space advantages]
[what evm/acc could entail in the future]
[broader commentary on evm scaling]