According to @deanmlittle, introducing versioned bytecode in blockchain protocols could lead to significant technical debt and ongoing vulnerabilities, as it creates a deeper moat for recurring bugs.

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

Abstract: Copied, reused and modified program code is a common phenomena in software development. As the resulting code clones are often not labeled as such and their proper detection is crucial to ...

Normally, a VM defines the semantics of it's programming language. In case of Java, the corresponding instruction set represents a multi-threaded stack machine, where values are kept on the heap, or ...