Solidity will be split into two separate tracks: Classic Solidity and Core Solidity

BlockBeats News, October 24th, the Ethereum smart contract language Solidity team recently stated in a post that the Solidity language will be split into two separate directions: Classic Solidity and Core Solidity.

The current Solidity supported programming language is Classic Solidity, which is already in production and has a very reliable compiler. However, the Solidity team still believes that the language itself is not stable, as can be seen from the 0.x version control, with the latest version being 0.80.30. Classic Solidity still plans to regularly release major updates. Core Solidity is an innovation of Solidity, with its type system built from scratch to support features such as generics, first-class functions, and algebraic data types.

Core Solidity is currently in the prototype stage. Solidity 1.0 will mark the point at which Core Solidity reaches a stable enough level to become the default frontend. The Solidity team stated that one of the goals for Core Solidity is to transition as smoothly as possible from the current Classic Solidity language to Core Solidity. Part of this plan involves a series of major version releases to make the syntax of Classic Solidity closer to the expected final state of Core Solidity, thus making the transition more gradual.