resolc user guide

resolc is a Solidity v0.8 compiler for Polkadot native smart contracts. Solidity compiled with resolc executes orders of magnitude faster than the EVM. resolc also supports almost all Solidity v0.8 features including inline assembly, offering a high level of comptability with the Ethereum Solidity reference implementation.

revive vs. resolc nomenclature

revive is the name of the overarching “Solidity to PolkaVM” compiler project, which contains multiple components (for example the Yul parser, the code generation library, the resolc executable itself, and many more things).

resolc is the name of the compiler driver executable, combining many revive components in a single and easy to use binary application.

In other words, revive is the whole compiler infrastructure (more like LLVM) and resolc is a user-facing single-entrypoint compiler frontend (more like clang).