Arbitrum Stylus Brings a Community of Rust and C Developers, Hundred Times Bigger Than Solidity, to Web3.
By hitesh.eth
Translated by Frank, Foresight News
So far, Stylus may be the most anticipated product launched by Arbitrum. It is time for the market to realize the significance of Stylus for the entire blockchain industry.
In recent years, users have been happy with the process of receiving airdrops just by testing protocols. However, in recent times, more and more users have entered with high expectations but end up with nothing.
This seems to be gradually becoming the end of the growth story for users on the chain, and even worse, developers are also leaving this false jungle woven by on-chain users because it is difficult to retain these “Farmers” after the token generation event (TGE) of the project.
The consequences of developers leaving are severe because it means that you will not see any innovative new projects. New projects will only blindly copy Aave, Compound, and GMX, eventually leading to a dead end.
So what is the solution? How to incentivize developers to stay and attract new developers to the Web3 field?
One simple and straightforward way is to provide incentives to developers active in the Web3 developer community. Some projects have already started airdropping tokens to developers, which is a very positive thing for the entire industry.
But the second way is a more long-term solution. Projects should lower the entry barrier for novice developers. Even if they are only familiar with basic languages like C or C++, they should be able to easily enter the Web3 development field.
Imagine a C language developer building DApp applications on the EVM. That would be really cool, wouldn’t it?
Let’s continue discussing methods to lower the entry barrier for novice developers, such as Arbitrum Stylus. It is building a virtual machine (VM) compatible with the C language. This VM allows developers to code in C, C++, Rust, and any language that can be pre-compiled into WASM.
Currently, they have already opened support for Rust and C languages.
According to statistics, there are 12 million developers worldwide familiar with the Rust language. Do you know how many people understand the Solidity syntax? Less than 100,000.
In other words, Arbitrum Stylus can reach a large community of Rust and C developers, who can start deploying applications from day one… Now, it will be effortless for these developers to deploy projects on Arbitrum.
However, Arbitrum Stylus not only allows non-Solidity developers to code and deploy DApps, but it also improves execution efficiency by 10 times and increases memory expansion capability by 50-100 times through supporting optimized WASM binary code.
It is worth noting that Arbitrum also adopts Nitro anti-fraud proof technology to verify the accuracy of the code compiled from C/Rust to WASM.
Stylus can be seen as a natural extension of Nitro anti-fraud proof technology. It not only allows verification of execution history but also verifies any WASM program deployed by developers.
With Stylus, developers can build memory-intensive applications on the EVM, such as prediction models, complex generative art, and on-chain machine learning. With Stylus, artificial intelligence can also explore the EVM with better performance.
In addition, any DApp built with Stylus can interoperate with Rust DApps, which means DApps in the Arbitrum ecosystem can seamlessly interact with Solana.
As of now, the Arbitrum Stylus testnet has been launched, and you can start building DApps using C and Rust languages with the Stylus SDK.
It is expected that Stylus will go live on the mainnet within the next 3-5 months. It will be the biggest upgrade for Arbitrum, benefiting its developers and users for future adoption.
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