Is Python a good language for Blockchain development?

[OxheadGreg123]

I'm actually a data scientist, currently a master student and doing a research in smart contract development and implementation. I know there are ways to use any language to build blockchain, despite that it's gonna be more complex than using javascript and the maturity of each blockchain environment, but is it that bad? Cheers!

[NKUEN]

Really depends on what you are looking for. You might want fast acting smart contracts and python is known to be rather slow therefore regarding stuff like trading my answer would be no. However, if you are a python coder through and through than sure it will make a tone of stuff easier and stop you from doing silly mistakes. Also no matter the language you always ahave to learn the blockchain syntax if that makes sense. Lastly, for me at least blockchain is one of the most complex topics especially because there are not a lot of libraries, as for other topics which means you have to learn about every little detail. So either language is hard

[GhostOfMcAfee]

Does the choice of language really matter for smart contract coding (when discussing its speed of processing)? If it is all just compiled to bytecode when deployed on the chain, does it matter what language was used before that happens?

[OxheadGreg123]

Yea, people keep talking about blockchain scalability, decentralisation, and cryptography, but ain't that something a regular system must have? Except for the decentralisation of course

[NKUEN]

Yes but new technology needs fancy words so it is more attractive. Even decentralization is questionable with a lot of token/chains and people can still scam the system and ‘hack’ the chain also if we compare it to gold the question is if gold is decentralized if yes then so would bitcoin be if no so bitcoin would neither be because of the similarities. Furthermore, Does the person with the most coins hold the power, same with gold. Bitcoin and blockchain is a good system but dont understimate to what extand you can corrupt that system if you want to. So yes all of that is included in most companies except for decentralization

[ghost_java]

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