Status as of Monday, April 24, 2017

dfair98 wrote:

Steve Sokolowski wrote:Python. That's a huge part of the problem.

Please tell me it's not Slush's Stratum mining Spaghetti factory?!

No. I remember looking at what you describe, but it didn't have the features we needed.

In 2013, however, most of the code that existed in this area was written in Python, so we thought that it would be easier to write in Python and then, when we had problems, be able to look at other code (like how to serialize blocks) for hints. It was still the best choice to write the project in Python, because we wouldn't have been able to stick with the project without any returns for long enough to do it in C++ from the start.