Sam Blackshear, the creator of Move, spoke with Cointelegraph to give the inside story on the language of Aptos, Sei and Sui.
At Facebook, Sam Blackshear created Move, a programming language tailored specifically for blockchain applications, but Diem, the cryptocurrency powered by Move, never launched.
When lawmakers in the United States quashed Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions, Blackshear and others searched for new applications for the language they created. It didn’t take long to find them. Today, several successful blockchains use Move, including Aptos, Sei and Sui, the latter of which Blackshear continues to work on as chief technology officer of Mysten Labs.
Cointelegraph spoke with Blackshear to discover why the end of Diem was just the beginning for Move and why it is a better choice for building blockchains than Solidity, Rust or other preexisting languages:
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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/move-langauge-facebook-s-stablecoin-diem-defi