TechFlow News — Starknet, the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, recently announced the launch of Cairo v2 with the upcoming Starknet alpha v0.12.0 release, and has published Cairo's short-term roadmap.
The new version introduces a completely revised contract syntax to enhance security by adding more structure to external functions, storage, and events in contracts, thereby reducing the likelihood of errors. This significant syntax change requires developers to modify the outermost layer of their contracts, including definitions of external functions and events.
Upcoming features include support for importing components defined in external libraries, Ethereum signature verification, newly supported signed integers, and the introduction of a native long string type.
Starkware stated that Cairo has now reached sufficient stability to support complex application scenarios.
