How to install Solidity in Mac

What is Solidity?

Solidity is a programming language that may be used to create smart contracts for a variety of blockchain systems, the most popular of which is Ethereum. It is an object-oriented programming language that performs smart contracts, using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

Installing Solidity on Mac

The procedures to install Solidity in MacOS are listed below:

1. Using the npm command in the terminal to install

Step 1: We will make sure that we have npm installed on our computer. If we don’t have it installed, we will run the following command before continuing.

brew install node

Step 2: We will run the command given below to install Solidity.

npm install -g solc

2. Installing through the brew command in the terminal

Step 1: We will make sure that we have npm installed on our computer. If not, then we will follow step 1 of method 1 to install it.

Step 2: We will tap into Ethereum with the following command before installing Solidity (required).

brew tap ethereum/ethereum

Step 3: After copying the Ethereum objects, using the previous command, we will install Solidity with the following command.

brew install solidity