EtherScripter - a visual smart contract builder

mode80

Hi all. I've been working on a visual smart contract builder for Ethereum.

The idea is to make smart contract design easy for developers and approachable even for non-programmers.

If you're interested in being a beta tester for this please post here or send me a pm.

Demo:

Jasper

Nice thingy to be honest, i think you average joe is probably better off using well-tested stuff.(though maybe the blocks could be well-tested more involved bits?) Maybe make a <epic voice>turtles of ethereum</epic voice> or a critters of ethereum.(that would also sort of be fuzz-testing)

That is actually an awful way to bet! This problem, but much worse; miners dont even have to drop blocks for that! They can look beforehand, given people willing to bribe me, and my own bets, do i want even or odd?

aatkin

I'd love to beta test. This is great! A web based front-end to this would be nice.

mode80

The real world has fill-in-the-blank legal contracts as well as tons of demand for custom agreements.

The hope is to reach an audience somewhere between "average joe" and "LISP programmer" -- lawyers, finance guys, Excel power users, etc. -- but also programmers who want to get their head around the possibilities quickly.

Also, I think it quickly conveys Ethereum's potential, perhaps a bit better than a screenshot of CLL.

@aatkin, it runs in any modern browser. Sent you a link.

maciejolpinski

@mode80 love your work, I'm exactly in your target audience in terms of programming skills - definitely not a LISP programmer but I have some scripting experience.

Just yesterday I've raised this issue that a visual 'contract explorer' tool would be cool for testing and prototyping (at least for someone like me)

Could you please send me the link too?

SimonLondon

It looks like a great tool for displaying the potential of the Ethereum protocol.
Nice work

rugbyowl

@mode80?

I'd love to beta test this if you're still looking for people. This looks really great and incredibly useful in terms of wider Ethereum adoption.

ethergrok

Excellent work. Please send a forum mail message to me with a link, I would like to do some testing. I've been keeping up with Joris and Joel's YouTube tutorial and presentations and examining as much Ethereum python code as possible. I really like the "puzzle" and snap together GUI metaphor. It looks like a good way to learn the Ethereum client's native high level scripting language as well.

Sebsebzen

@mode80 I'm interested. Plus, I would be a great test subject for inexperienced users.

neeeeeeext

would love to beta test this, looks great!

keen

I would like to test this as well! Do you have Skype by any chance? I would like to discuss something else as well! Ryan.Keenan.11 on there. Thanks!

mode80

Thanks all for the positive feedback. Beta links sent.

FreddyFender

I'll help out with beta!

cphi

Looks interesting! I would like to beta test as well.

Madcat

Very interesting, would love to beta test also.

sunnyg

I would love to beta test as well!

healtheum

cool stuff, i'm interested!

cgbaker

Very nicely done. I'd like to be part of the beta if you're still accepting.

kershy

I volunteer as a beta-tester

nirom

Very nicely done. I think power users will definitely be able to prototype contracts with this. Sign me up for a beta!

mode80

Thanks. Links sent.

jonwaller

I'd love to beta-test this. I could also show it off to our Tokyo Ethereum meetup group too:
http://www.meetup.com/Ethereum-Tokyo-Meetup/

ethergrok

nirom : "I think power users will definitely be able to prototype contracts with this."

I agree, and keeping the interface both informative of the Ethereum concepts, through practice, and keeping the interface user friendly is the key. I suggest moving development in tandem with the recent Whitepaper Draft 2, and following the growing "naming convention" for the Ethereum draft functions.

Ultimately, power users could certainly model contracts in this interface, and we might see a company using Ethereum contracts then submit those models to a professional organization which then optimizes the contract at the code "view source" level.

minaxie

This is a great effort. Would like to try it

izamryan

Excellent effort @mode80 ! Please sign me up as a Beta tester :-)

http://twitter.com/izamryan

ranford

Yes great stuff, please add me to your beta testers

nik5ter

Awesome. Would love to beta test!

backeddy

Looks great, moderate experience and would love to test it...

Something

I'm interested as well, please add me.

ethergrok

After comparing the contracts that Joris and Joel have presented in YouTube to the examples in EthereumScripter, and looking at the LLL that is generated after assembly of the primitives widgets in the ETHscripter GUI I think it would be a GIGANTIC, positive crossover learning experience for those that have followed Joris and Joel, and those that will certainly look at their YouTubes in the future, and for those who have and are working in python with the Ethereum concepts, if ... each contract that is presented by Joel and Joris is in the examples list in ETHscript.

I hope somebody might volunteer to do this in the future. And, that Joel and Joris, or, some python coder take examples that are in the ETHscripter and make pythonesque scripts.

We can leverage both sides of the coin and propel the development of scripts, and the educational experience, widen the audience, etc ... by doing this, thanks. I'm enjoying ETHscripter!

Perhaps this might bring us closer, or put us on a track to getting closer to developing a final language, or set of languages for Ethereum contracts.

mode80

@ethergrok, yes learning the underlying language quickly is a big benefit. Right now it generates LLL and I prefer to use EtherScripter than typing LLL by hand.

However, I'd like to make it also generate HLL. That will be a great way for beginners to learn HLL.

If EtherScripter gets beginners to the point they prefer writing HLL, that would be a great result.