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Solidity

Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

Solidity is an open-source programming language project on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license (strong copyleft), with 26k stars. It is built with LLVM project. Its last push was today.

Stars
26k
License
GPL-3.0
Activity
Active
Latest release
v0.8.38

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
The compiler for Solidity, the main statically typed language for writing smart contracts that run on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains.
Adopt it when
You are writing smart contracts for Ethereum or an EVM-compatible chain.
Watch out
Contract bugs are costly and permanent, so audits and careful testing are essential.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Command line
Built with
C++
How established
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v0.8.38.
What the license allows
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

LLVM project

Follow it down: Solidity → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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