What is blockchain technology? Which programming language should I learn for it?

Answer 1

Solidity - it is most developed programming language for writing contracts. Solidity is very similar to javascript. So I suggest you to learn javascript and then Solidity. Because in real world in the blockchain projects - contracts are written in Solidity, but they are most likely to be integrated with Node.js server, altough it is not necessery to have backend for blockchain projects.

Answer 2

Vladi Petrov You just elevated to Rockstar status with me. 😎🤘

I hadn't heard of Solidity until now. To be fair, I've had my hands full with a ton of other technologies the past few years. 😉

Anyway, I just did some research on this and see it's only a few years old.

I'm installing the JetBrains plugin for this now to check it out using IntelliJ.

Major thanks to you for sharing this information.

Answer 3

That is one good example as to why I joined Sololearn... These guys and gals are introducing knowledge some of us have little to no experience in or even know of.
I heard of Solidity about 5 months ago in a totally different level / forum. Signed up into some of the blockchain projects.

Answer 4

@Nannigalaxy, blockchain to understand smart contract for example EVM(Etherium virtual machine) should compile to byte code if EVM can compile python it will work, but for now there aren't such compilers. I talk about etherium and solidity because it is most mature technology and can be used by programmers.

Answer 5

A Blockchain in short is a (Normally decentralized) trust-less P2P distributed ledger.

To be honest the ones you have tagged are all good languages for building a Blockchain.

I've seen a mention of Solidity, which is another thing I've been reading up on for some time. Smart contracts are arguably essential to building dapps (decentralized applications) with rules on a Blockchain.

Many good sites out there to learn from. Many issues including trade, transparency and verification are being solved by Blockchain technology every day.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Vladi Petrov can I use python?

Answer 8

https://wp.me/p9exO6-4q

Answer 9

Pretty hard and very interesting question. My friend use Go for it, because it's fast (compiling static language) and easy (not so hard as C for example).