Introducing Yolc | Yolc

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2025-01-06 09:00:02

Fast-forward 10 years. By the time of writing this post, according to etherscan, the Ethereum network has made 2.6 billion transactions and processed 21.6 million blocks. It currently processes 13 transactions per second on its base layer alone, while a few layer 2s further scale its capacity at a much higher throughput of transactions per second.

Programming on Ethereum, as a smart contract platform, has never been easier since the creation of the Solidity language. Many have benefited from it, creating worldwide socially and economically impactful experiments and applications simply by having a computer and an internet connection.

Ethereum's success has attracted much brainpower to its ecosystem. Over the years, some have also left and attempted to replicate its success by bringing the best of the current human knowledge through a clean slate start. It is a healthy market phenomenon of competition. Still, as a citizen of the Ethereum ecosystem, it is also an important signal that there are areas where we can learn and progress further.

Yolc (as opposed to... solc, the solidity compiler) was born in response to one specific area: the Ethereum ecosystem needs a general-purpose programming language that is safe, expressive, and as fun as Solidity to work with.