# Yul

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## [About the Yul category](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/about-the-yul-category/63)

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**Author:** [@franzihei](https://forum.soliditylang.org/u/franzihei)\
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Language design discussions about the future direction of Yul. Yul, previously also called JULIA or IULIA, is an intermediate language for Ethereum that can be compiled to bytecode for different backends. …

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## [Isolate the Yul Compiler as a Standalone Backend](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/isolate-the-yul-compiler-as-a-standalone-backend/3523)

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**Author:** [@axe](https://forum.soliditylang.org/u/axe)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 23, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/isolate-the-yul-compiler-as-a-standalone-backend/3523 "2025-10-23T21:41:05Z")

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Many developers (myself included) are working on new domain-specific languages (DSLs) or alternative smart contract languages that target the EVM. Yul is a great intermediate representation, but today the Yul backend is …

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## [Improve gas consumption in Solidity](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/improve-gas-consumption-in-solidity/1036)

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**Author:** [@sergiuiacob1](https://forum.soliditylang.org/u/sergiuiacob1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 30, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/improve-gas-consumption-in-solidity/1036 "2022-05-30T10:49:34Z")

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Hi! My name is Sergiu Iacob and I’m a Master’s Student in Computational Optimization (Artifficial Intelligence) in Iasi, Romania. I’m working on my master’s thesis currently, which focuses on improving gas consumption i…

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## [Right Shift not working](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/right-shift-not-working/1011)

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**Author:** [@Atarpara](https://forum.soliditylang.org/u/Atarpara)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/right-shift-not-working/1011 "2022-05-09T23:36:36Z")

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I working on in-line assembly in the smart contract. function rightShift(uint256 x) public pure returns (uint256 result) { assembly { result := shr(x,1) } } Above function always return …