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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:23:27PM +0000, Achow101 via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Feel free to re-implement Bitcoin Core in Python. It's open source softwa=
re and you can do whatever you want.
>=20
> However Bitcoin Core is not going move to Python and rewrite everything i=
n Python. Besides the fact that Python is far less efficient than C/C++, re=
writing Bitcoin Core in any other language would be a huge undertaking and =
introduce many bugs for almost no benefit whatsoever. Bitcoin Core won't be=
changing languages for the entire codebase, but you are welcome to port it=
to Python yourself.
Speaking as maintainer of the Python library python-bitcoinlib, I don't thi=
nk
using Python for security critical codebases is a good idea. It's just too =
easy
to make mistakes; I wouldn't recommend new projects use python-bitcoinlib.
Currently I'm doing 100% of my new projects on Rust. That's not to say Rust=
is
the only language usable for this kind of work. But it fits my style of
programming well and the type system - esp good handling of immutability -
appears to offer significant benefits.
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