According to Cointelegraph, Offchain Labs co-founder Ed Felten has praised the recently released Arbitrum Stylus, a tool for Arbitrum developers that could bring more devs to Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVM) and improve its code. Launched on a testnet on August 31, Stylus allows developers to use languages such as Rust, C, and C++ to build Arbitrum apps, enabling non-Web3 native devs to use familiar languages and development tools.
Felten believes Stylus will onboard more developers to build EVMs with more mature tools, citing the larger number of devs that program in Rust over Solidity, the programming language for building Ethereum smart contracts. He also noted that Stylus is 10 to 15 times faster for typical computations than EVM and supports legacy languages, which have a significant amount of existing, battle-tested, and audited code.
The gas cost for Stylus is also 10 to 15 times lower, allowing for more complex transactions and the possibility of iPhone-compatible cryptography. This could potentially lead to the integration of a crypto wallet on an iPhone, enabling the use of Apple's FaceID for wallet transactions. Lower gas fees could also result in higher levels of realism in blockchain-based games and on-chain evaluation of machine learning models against live application data. Felten believes that Stylus could help projects ship faster by allowing for mature programming languages, better protection against bugs, and improved performance.
