new-side-quest ⁽¹⁴⁾

This is mostly a placeholder for now. I've already shared what I like about it and why it was selected in Why Firefly? This article will be about my findings along the way, and perhaps a summary at the end.

Summary My initial knee-jerk reaction about Go was correct: it's a language made by someone who is clearly very opinionated and seems to miss the forest for the trees. However, it seems that their opinions align with mine enough that I somewhat enjoy using it. I …

We started with an idea, then some sample code, and now we have a fully operational Death Star contract. Now we just need a network to deploy it to, and a way to talk to the contract.

Hyperledger Fabric does not use the term "smart contract", but instead "chaincode". I prefer this term for two reasons: My previous team and I built an entire SDK to soften up some of the sharp edges in the TypeScript Fabric SDK and make it faster…