A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

I feel like we’re exiting a “golden age” of EVM development, where devs could build for a single execution environment

As more chains come online & compete to meaningfully differentiate, or just upgrade on different cadences, writing good smart contract code that’s deployable everywhere is gonna get way harder

This is not nearly as discussed compared liquidity or staking inefficiencies... as you mentioned navigating multiple environments complicates development, makes interoperability harder to achieve and eventually usability.

Being able to deploy the same code to multiple architectures addresses part of the problem, but differences in the underlying vm are still going to be taken into account, particularly in execution-constrained conditions (which is pretty much all L1s and most L2s)

do you think an llvm equivalent can/should exist?

Build a working evm chain is like mixing a bowl of salad - they are all diff, but taste almost the same.

It's actually nuts that we'll be able to use our contracts on a parallel EVM chain like Monad.

Non-EVM chains are going to zero (sorry Solana).