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> Solidity is like programming in JavaScript, except with your bank account accessible through the Document Object Model.

Such a beautiful, terrifying sentence.

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I recently saw this on Twitter, and thought it was pretty funny:

"What's Ethereum?"

Imagine that your dollar bills were written in Javascript.

(from @random_eddie)

This is a very snarky hyperbole. Solidity has as much to do with Javascript as Java does.

For starters, Solidity is a compiled, typed language.

It is still new and has to be improved.

> Solidity is a compiled, typed language.

The same language can be both compiled and interpreted, this doesn't affect the semantics of the language. For example, OCaml ships with both a compiler and an interpreter. There exist AOT compilers for JavaScript too.

Also, JavaSript is a typed language. It is just dynamically typed and does too much type coercion.

Thanks for the clarification. So, Solidity is a compile-only, strongly typed language? While Javascript is usually interpreted (or JIT compiled) and dynamically typed.

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