PANews reported on April 13 that in response to the statement that "Ethereum's self-update requires a generational/talent replacement. And the next generation needs to be rooted in Ethereum values (such as cypherpunks)", Vitalik Buterin replied in Warpcast: "I actually think that the growth of the application layer is the period when good social philosophy is most needed. For example: suppose C++ was developed by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general, and there is not much room for bad social philosophy to destroy it (or for good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum Layer-1 is not entirely like this: people who don't believe in decentralization will not add light clients, FOCIL, or (well-formed) account abstractions; people who don't mind wasting energy will not spend five years migrating to PoS... But in any case, the opcodes of the EVM are probably roughly the same. Therefore, Ethereum may be 50% general. About 80% of applications are dedicated. What kind of application you build depends largely on your idea of what Ethereum applications (and Ethereum as a whole) will do for the world. Therefore, it becomes crucial to have good ideas on this topic."
In addition, Vitalik listed some applications, including Railgun, Farcaster, Polymarket, and Signal as good ones, and Pump.fun, Terra/Luna, and FTX as bad ones. He believes that the difference in application functions stems from the different beliefs that developers hold about the goals they want to achieve.
