On the 8th of January 2023, @SmallCapScientist, the host of MarketCapping, went on Twitter to ask questions about Apto’s Move and how developers view the language’s future activities.
Question for all the devs, how do you like writing code using Move?
Aptos has struggled due to valuation but I'm curious from a dev perspective… will chad devs eventually rotate or is it mostly hype?
— Small Cap Scientist 👨🔬🧪🥼 (@SmallCapScience) January 7, 2023
Aptos operates similarly to Ethereum. It is a layer 1 POS blockchain that allows the use of smart contracts and dApps. The team behind Aptos is the same one building Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta project.
Just like the primary language of Ethereum is Solidity, @SmallcapScientist had a question for developers. He was interested in knowing what they thought of Move, which is the primary language of the Aptos blockchain.
Based on price valuation, APT has been struggling, but aside from the financial aspect, do devs like writing codes using Move? Would it achieve major adoption by chad developers, or is it just hype?
The consensus protocol run by Aptos validators agrees on the order of transactions when executing on the Move VM. each validator submits a transaction along with the current ledger state of the blockchain into the MVM, which processes it and produces an output. If consensus agrees on the changeset output, it’s published publicly.
Yet, the Move language forces developers to view transactions and security differently. The core of its security structure is the signer or the verified owner of the account. In Move, the only person with full permission to add or remove assets is the signer. Thus, even a developer requires the presence of the signer to access any resources or assets within the account.
Unlike Ethereum, where the data is stored in smart contracts and accounts associated with those smart contracts, Aptos ensures everything is stored within the account of the signer verifying the transaction.
In response to his questions, many users claimed that they don’t really care about the language but the audience. Most developers can learn a new language and build so far as there’s an adequate audience to utilize their projects. Some popular languages have already existing structures for an easy start, but even those have a negligible impact on the overall usability.
And most developers are sticking to Rust and Solidity because of the audience, community, and language adoption. According to one user, Rust would continue to have one of the best developer communities and language adoption for numerous reasons. But it’s best the crypto space focuses on the upcoming Solana VM rollup that’s being built on Cosmos.
