The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O’Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2017) ...

Developer Stack Overflow visits to Python have grown very quickly, she added: This year, it became the most visited programming language in the world on the site.

Developers can use traditional programming languages (C++, Python, JavaScript) for blockchain development as well as specifically built solutions like Solidity, Vyper and Scrypto.