Mar 27, 2025 · The place to discuss design and usage of and changes to the Solidity programming language.

Dec 4, 2025 · Version 0.8.31 of the Solidity Compiler further extends the features of storage layout specifiers. It is now possible to use constant variables in the base slot expression.

Dec 20, 2025 · We just released versions 0.8.32 and 0.8.33 of the Solidity Compiler. 🚨 Note: We recommend skipping 0.8.32 and upgrading directly to 0.8.33, which contains a hotfix for an issue …

Mar 15, 2024 · Introducing the newest version of the Solidity Compiler v0.8.25. This is a minor release following the Dencun hard-fork on Ethereum mainnet that occurred on March 13, 2024 at 13:55 UTC. …

msg.value is a member of the msg (message) object when sending (state transitioning) transactions on the Ethereum network. msg.value contains the amount of wei (ether / 1e18) sent in the transaction. …

Jul 4, 2017 · The difference is because in public functions, Solidity immediately copies array arguments to memory, while external functions can read directly from calldata. Memory allocation is expensive, …

May 17, 2021 · Solidity is an object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts. It is designed to target the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). There are many other blockchains (other …

In the following example from the Solidity documentation, what does emit do? highestBidder = msg.sender; highestBid = msg.value; emit HighestBidIncreased(msg.sender, msg.value);

Apr 10, 2016 · There are snippets and functions of Solidity code provided on this Ethereum Stack Exchange and other sites. What are ways to quickly test them, possibly debug a little, and play around?

Integers in Solidity: uint256 (uint is an alias) is a unsigned integer which has: minimum value of 0 maximum value of 2^256-1 ...