First impressions of NEAR smart contract development in Rust

Rust is increasingly used as a programming language for smart contracts.
Whereas the first generation blockchains used specialized VMs,
newer blockchains are running general purpose VMs,
especially WASM.
And of course,
Rust is a modern language that runs … Read more

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