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Solidity is a programming language for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms, most notably, Ethereum. Solidity is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. Solidity was designed by Gavin Wood and developed by Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several former Ethereum core contributors. Programs in Solidity run on Ethereum Virtual Machine or on compatible virtual machines.

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Programming language.name
Solidity
Programming language.logo
Solidity logo.svg
Programming language.logo caption
The Solidity language logo
Programming language.logo size
80px
Programming language.paradigm
imperative, object-oriented
Programming language.family
ECMAScript (original)C++ (later)
Programming language.designer
Gavin Wood
Programming language.developer
Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several former Ethereum core contributors
Programming language.programming language
C++
Programming language.typing
static
Programming language.scope
lexical
Programming language.platform
blockchain platforms
Programming language.operating system
Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux
Programming language.license
GNU General Public License v3.0
Programming language.file ext
.sol
Programming language.influenced by
JavaScript, C++, Python

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Solidity is a statically-typed, contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform. For a good overview and starting point, please check out the official Solidity Language Portal. Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow anyone to implement tokens of value, ownership, voting, and other kinds of logic. When deploying contracts, you should use the latest released version of Solidity. This is because breaking changes, as well as new features and bug fixes, are introduced regularly. We currently use a 0.x version number to indicate this fast pace of change. Instructions about how to build and install the Solidity compiler can be found in the Solidity documentation. To get started with Solidity, you can use Remix, which is a browser-based IDE. Here are some example contracts: Solidity is still under development. Contributions are always welcome! Please follow the Developer's Guide if you want to help. You can find our current feature and bug priorities for forthcoming releases in the projects section. Maintainers The Solidity programming language and compiler are open-source community projects governed by a core team. The core team is sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation.

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Official website
soliditylang.org
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source code repository URL
github.com/argotorg/solidity
software version identifier
0.8.34
user manual URL
docs.soliditylang.org
inception
2014-00-00
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Solidity is a programming language for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms, most notably, Ethereum. Solidity is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. Solidity was designed by Gavin Wood and developed by Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several former Ethereum core contributors. Programs in Solidity run on Ethereum Virtual Machine or on compatible virtual machines.

==History== Solidity was proposed in August 2014 by Gavin Wood The language was later developed by the Ethereum project's Solidity team, led by Christian Reitwiessner.

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