Quote from: programmer-frank on November 11, 2021, 10:25:59 PM

I think Rust is a good choice for writing blockchain related code. Typesafe and fast like C++, but the Rust compiler is much better.

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What do you think about how it compares with Python for blockchain related things? I find python to be a real confusing thing when it comes to bitcoin simply because you have old packages and then newer packages that presumably do the same things in some cases. Then you have vitalik's circa 2013 that has over 800 forks how do you know which fork to use or trust? Its a real crapshow. The even worse thing is that his package and its derivatives are not really fully featured. They only do a limited set of things and I'm not even sure they do it really well. the code seems kind of hacked together and not very well commented at all but anyhow...

It would be nice to have some type of quality control process to the package management system where the only packages that could make it into the repository were verified and vetted for not only functionality but full functionality and correctness and professionally written not cobbled together. And don't include 2 packages whose functions overlap.