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Bitcoin is a consensus critical system.
We have already had consensus problems between Bitcoin Core-versions,
rewriting everything in another language would expose us to even greater
risks, and moving to a language like Python I see no benefit whatsoever.
Best
Hampus
Den tis 23 apr. 2019 kl 16:47 skrev Ahmer Regos via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
> I'm proposing re-writing bitcoin codebase in Python for improving pre and
> post merging abilities, faster operations and better understandability.
> Python is a fast language with C support, it is good with hashing things,
> it has a good syntax and everyone can read / understand it unlike C++.
>
> I am willing the coordinate the transformation operation and i believe it
> would be really good the get rid of C++.
>
> - Ahmer Regos from Regain Beaches.
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