Mikko on Warpcast

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Bad news: To make EIP 712 signatures work in Go, you have to manually increment the 65th byte of the signature by 27 to make it work (!!) Good news: Github Co-pilot knows this, and auto completed `sig[64] += 27` at the end of my function without me prompting (or even knowing about this)

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Yeah, it turns out this hack appears in more places than you would expect (it's not just Go). https://github.com/safe-global/safe-core-sdk/blob/4d1c0e14630f951c2498e1d4dd521403af91d6e1/packages/protocol-kit/src/utils/signatures/utils.ts#L91

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It's because many Ethereum APIs and such are badly designed and badly standardised. Now it's too late to fix things and hacks and problems will live around forever.

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Our only hope is that the AIs learn all these hacks and workarounds and fix our code for us.

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That's an unreasonable expection. In this phase, as progress on innovation is slowing down, a good alternative is to write down "lessons learnt" and then work on a new blockchain that is still in much earlier phase and ensure the mistakes in 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 blockchains will be fixed.

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That is exactly what I'm doing 🫡

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Some good new chains to check out - Radix (scrypto smart contract language) - Aptos, Sui (Move based, of Zuckerberg fame, partial parallelisation) - NEAR, Elrond (sharded, will scale like no tomorrow) - Agora (write contracts in JS)

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wait you want to write smart contracts in JS? to me pure JS (not enforced, well linted TS) is like a dirty language from a security standpoint due to the excessivly long supplychain of packages and missing security analysis properties (hard to guarantee anything without having types, you can only interefere them in js)

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I 100% agree with you. However, like Brendan Eich said, always bet on JavaScript.

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Also the authors of Agora are OG developers. They very well seem to know the weaknesses of JavaScript and make sure bad things do not happen.

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I‘d 100% bet on TypeScript 😁 I see the world moving to TypeScript + React Native for everything even WebApps (or maybe PWAs will fully take over, but that’s then TS also) Backend maybe Go has a chance as API? Python for ML, Low level being C++, Rust

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