Long-term L1 execution layer proposal: replace the EVM with RISC-V

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@edubart

One of the biggest advantages I see in adopting RISC-V is the immediate access to mature tooling and ecosystems.

+9000%

@vbuterin

contracts written in Rust are actually quite ugly, and Solidity and Vyper are much more readable

In shiny theory - yes. In practice support and tooling matters more.

E.g: How do I catch abi.decode errors? This feature request is open for over 4(!) years: `try`/`catch` for `abi.decode()` or `abi.tryDecode` · Issue #10381 · ethereum/solidity · GitHub

Similar problems are facing not just Ethereum owned tooling, e.g. Hardhat fails to implement vscode pnpm import resolver for 1.5 years (!) by now: imports autocomplete does not work with pnpm · Issue #522 · NomicFoundation/hardhat-vscode · GitHub

I could go on and on. If you give me ugly syntax but with improvements on that side, I would prefer it.