Smart Contract Languages

A great aspect about MELD is that, as it is based on the EVM, smart contracts can be programmed using relatively developer-friendly languages. If you're experienced with Python or any curly-bracket language, you can find a language with familiar syntax.

The two most active and maintained languages are Solidity and Vyper.

Solidity

• Object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts.

• A curly-bracket language that has been most profoundly influenced by C++.

• Statically typed (the type of a variable is known at compile time).

• Supports:

  • Inheritance (you can extend other contracts).

  • Libraries (you can create reusable code that you can call from different contracts – like static functions in a static class in other object-oriented programming languages).

  • Complex user-defined types.

  Solidity Documentation

Vyper

• Pythonic programming language

• Strong typing

• Small and understandable compiler code

• Efficient bytecode generation

• Deliberately has fewer features than Solidity with the aim of making contracts more secure and easier to audit. Vyper does not support:

  • Modifiers

  • Inheritance

  • Inline assembly

  • Function overloading

  • Operator overloading

  • Recursive calling

  • Infinite-length loops

  • Binary fixed points

  Vyper Documentation

More experienced developers also might want to use Yul, an intermediate language, or Yul+, an extension to Yul.