Charles Hoskinson says Cardano 'making haste slowly,' snapshot for Shelley most likely on Nov. 12

In another surprise AMA session, Charles Hoskinson shared the latest updates on Cardano.

The CEO of IOHK said that October has been a month packed with action that could enable the first snapshot for the Shelley incentivized testnet to happen as early as Nov. 12.An action-packed month brings Cardano closer to launching Shelley's incentivized testnet.

Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, held several hour-long live AMA sessions on YouTube, answering questions from the community about everything from concrete protocol upgrades to long term plans for Cardano.

Hoskinson said, the company managed to "Learn a lot" and correct an "Enormous amount of bugs." Cardano saw around 20 releases in the previous month alone, all of which solved the issues users brought to light within the testnet.

The first, trial snapshot will most likely happen on Nov. 12, Hoskinson said but steered clear from setting a fixed date for the launch.

Hoskinson called on the Cardano community to participate in the snapshot even if they don't plan on staking on the incentivized testnet.

Hoskinson spent some time talking code during the AMA, at one point commenting on IOHK's refusal to use C++ when writing Cardano.

Despite calling it a "Horrible dreary language," he said that there was a possibility Cardano could have achieved more and achieved it faster if it was written in a language such as C++.Big businesses and governments aren't a threat to Cardano.

In light of the recent crackdown on Facebook's Libra, Hoskinson said that Cardano can't be shut.

"We'll know we made it when there's Cardano Cash or Cardano's Vision."