I remember when Charles Hoskinson announced that smart contracts on his crypto platform Cardano / Plutus would use Haskell.

It just didn't get anything like the adoption that Solidity had at the time.

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treyd a day ago | parent | next [-]

That's not the reason Cardano failed though. All the capital had already established itself on other platforms and "it uses a better language" wasn't enough of an incentive to switch. It's an overwhelmingly common story in that ecosystem, even with other networks that Solidity can target.

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mhitza a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know what it takes to write (or wire up) a smart contracts language, but when I, as someone past beginner level, looked up the Cardano docs on how to build contracts I was mega confused and had no clear way how to get started.

	▲	axman6 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Cardano contracts are _strange_, because they don’t describe what you want to happen, they check if what’s happening in a transaction is allowed — all contracts are a function `Transaction -> Bool` — and most people want to describe the actions. There are plenty of ways to write Cardano contracts in several languages, but I do agree it’s not clear how you go from idea to on chain.