Quote from: superresistant on March 08, 2017, 05:45:23 PM

Quote from: iamnotback on March 08, 2017, 06:27:55 AM

Quote from: superresistant on March 07, 2017, 11:17:33 AM

Re: I just did a smart contract in Byteball : mind blow.

The hype in the Subject title of this thread also seems to be ignoring the reality that some of these things were possible with Bitcoin's scripts, others with CounterParty (not that I think CP is secure), Ethereum, etc...

First sentence :

Quote from: superresistant on March 07, 2017, 11:17:33 AM

Smart contract isn't something new, far from it.

Quote from: iamnotback on March 08, 2017, 06:27:55 AM

Byteball fortuitously happened to have a script & protocol you wanted available in the wallet by default.

That is what is mind blowing, the user experience, not the technology.
I insisted enough on this.

Okay thanks for reiterating. My point was this wasn't clear from the Subject and the OP is not visible when viewing the list of threads. So the subject tends to give the a hype oriented impression that the smart contract language is somehow mind blowingly superior to everything that came before it.

For me, good user interfaces are not mind blowing. They are essential. Just because our development community isn't well attuned to the needs of users, doesn't mean to me that it is mind blowing when a developer does what he is supposed to do. But I guess from your perspective it is mind blowing compared to for example the alleged diurnal Easter egg hunt for a Monero official GUI (hey Monero supporters I'm oblivious about Monero's clients, as I've never used any of it so I am just regurgitating what I read on this forum).

Quote from: superresistant on March 08, 2017, 05:45:23 PM

Quote from: superresistant on March 07, 2017, 11:17:33 AM

That's how smart contracts should works : for a real use without being aware you're doing a smart contract.

I immediately noticed the use of a chatbot in byteball and I think that is visionary. I will let this video explain my view point on the matter :
Why Apps Won't Matter in the Future
(especially the part about chatbot)

Financial apps should be in the form of chatbot. It's already massively the case in China. Only the Occidental market ignore it but it's already here and huge.

Lol, I didn't even know you were having a textual chat conversation with an automated A.I. chatbot. I thought you were in a discussion with another user about how to escrow.

Does Byteball really have a text-based A.I. chatbot integrated into its client?

Btw, I really appreciate you linking to that YouTube, because it reaffirms one of the major strategies of my project. Let me state what that is by explaining what I disagree with in that video, even though I agree with the premise that users don't want the hassles of apps and that the app barrier to having an entirely open source mobile OS not controlled by any vendor (which is where I think we are headed).

The emergence of chatbots and voice assistants isn't an orthogonal choice to superapps, i.e. these can be a feature of a superapp structure. And superapps and chatbots aren't orthogonal to having millions of independent developers. Instead the superapp is the conceptual structure by which we make integration more efficient for users of all these, i.e. remove as many unnecessary pain points as possible whilst still giving users flexibility to plugin new features and activities. And enable to them to run every where with the same code.

Why do you think I am creating a new programming language that transpiles to JavaScript (i.e. it will run on any device with a browser control). I have very ambitious plans. A long-range objective of my project is to supercede (abstract away and replace) Android and iOS eventually (many years down the line).