Compact vs Solidity: Limitations and Advantages

Compact is a privacy-preserving smart contract language for Midnight that prioritizes confidential computation over Solidity-style transparency.

Compared with Solidity, Compact has stricter deterministic logic, no in-contract deployment, and reduced composability.

Developers may face a steeper learning curve, immature tooling, and more complex identity handling such as msg.sender equivalents.

In return, Compact enables native privacy and computation over encrypted data via zero-knowledge proofs.