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Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain.

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Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-01-20 15:35:26 UTC to 2021-12-05 19:39:47 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsDec 2021

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What Hacker News says

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Yeah looking at elements.rs, it appears that they have the translation layer I alluded to: https://github.com/ethereum/fe/blob/bfeffe82b4f8623330c1ebb1... It's not obvious to me though and I couldn't find documentation for ABI compatibility. For example, does delegatecall to solidity work? That requires that Fe also use the same "binary" layout for storage in which slot index is used to generate the storage hash: https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.10/internals/layout_in...
In Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain
For those not familiar with Solidity, there is a peculiarity in the "ABI" that makes it painful to interop between languages. In solidity, there are types called "contracts" which are like classes in other languages. When you call a function in a different contract, the dispatch is routed using the first few bytes of the has of the signature [1]. For example, to transfer ERC-20 tokens you dispatch using `hash(transfer(address, uint256))[:4]`, meaning that you put those first four bytes at the beginning of the data that you pass to the receiving contract. Just like the native world, this causes a problem when you try to interface between different languages. In Fe, the types have different names so this hashing scheme can't work without a translation layer. From some of the issues it looks like interoperability may be a problem [2]. That's
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ok if you write all the contracts that your dApp interacts with, but as time goes on dApps interact and call into one another more and more often. There are probably also lots of opportunities here for exploiting confusion at these boundaries, so if you're inclined and know how to use tornado you may be able to make quite a bit of money off contracts that use Fe. [1] https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.10/abi-spec.html#funct... [2] https://github.com/ethereum/fe/issues/592
In Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

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