The Nomic Foundation launched slang-solx, a new LLVM-based Solidity compiler backend, delivering performance up to 5 times faster than the traditional solc compiler in via-IR mode and 1.7 times faster in legacy mode. The core Solidity team released version 0.8.37 the same month, fixing two bugs of low to medium severity and adding support for the SLOTNUM opcode for the Amsterdam EVM version. slang-solx, which supports Solidity 0.8.34, is positioned for development use only and not yet recommended for production deployments. Both releases illustrate the division of responsibilities between the core team handling security patches and independent organizations like Nomic focusing on performance and developer experience.
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