(2021-05-25) Gavin Wood Webassembly Is The Future Evm Is Right Now

Gavin Wood: WebAssembly Is the Future, EVM Is Right Now. The EVM is what enables Ethereum to run smart contracts, the innovation it’s known for popularizing

The EVM has lots of developers and lots of software tools they can use to make coding easier. Other blockchains are playing catchup with those tools, so, Wood said, “It’s foolish to just throw those away. But it’s not foolish to start thinking about where the next thing is, and that for me is using WebAssembly as smart contracts.”

the problem with EVM is it’s a hugely opinionated design. It derives from an already very opinionated design, which is the Bitcoin script design,” Wood said. His team wanted to give developers a very non-opinionated format to work with, and that’s WebAssembly.

“Blockchains are not fit for purpose in the modern day, like legacy blockchains that rely on hard forks, rely on thwarting their own consensus, are not fit. for modern-day use. It’s as simple as that,” Wood said. “People expect automatically upgrading apps. They expect automatically securing systems, and they expect it with a minimum of fuss.”