Introducing Solidity

Solidity is an Ethereum smart contract programming language with a syntax similar to C++ and JavaScript. It was designed to create a smart contract and can be executed on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Gavin Wood, Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several Ethereum core contributors developed it.

Solidity is a statically-typed, object-oriented language that contains state variables, functions, and complex user-defined types and supports inheritance and libraries. It allows developers of Decentralized Applications (DApps) to implement business logic functions in a smart contract. Like any other static language, the contract compiler will verify and check syntax rules during the contract compile time. Similar to Java, the Solidity code is compiled into bytecode that can be executed on the EVM. Unlike other compiled languages, the bytecode that’s generated across platforms will remain the same, provided that the input parameters to the compiler...