Solidity Core Will Keep Compiler Devs Happy. What About Us?

The Solidity team's "Road to Core Solidity" plan would split the language into Core Solidity and Classic Solidity, with Core adding generics, first-class functions, algebraic data types and a built-in standard library. The author, a developer who has used Solidity since 2018 at Aera, argues that practical priorities should come first: settling valid compiler and optimization configurations, fixing stack-too-deep errors, and improving gas efficiency. The author says Core's feature work may still make developers happy and that the MLIR-based pipeline could help with gas and stack issues, though it is not the author's own priority list.