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

Nothing beats when the EVM enters a new “weird era”

First: introduction of DELEGATECALL to replace CALLCODE

Then: CREATE2 (this was a huge game-changer & really kicked off my personal journey in understanding yhe EVM)

Now: AUTH & AUTHCALL — so much to be (re)built and reconsidered

And just wait until EOF 🤯

What's your fav use case for EOF? My understanding is it helps simplify the transpiling from higher level languages, right? It wouldn't actually enable new use cases?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

Oh it’s massive, basically establishes ways to version the EVM by contract and have whole new semantics

From an EVM perspective though, does it allow us to do anything that we couldn't do before? Always seemed like a nice-to-have to me.

My understanding is that the EOF pins the contract to a particular EVM version. This explicit versioning will allow the EVM to be upgraded more safely going forward.

Oh man I hadn’t even considered how it’ll mess with such tooling. A lot of additional complexity!

Good point. I'm mostly focused on the code sections/jumps changes which will require me to redo a bunch of WhatsABI work lol.

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