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I have asked if there is a contract simulator and I got no response.

Even though the coding experience seems pretty poor, it doesn't appear to be particularly dangerous as bad contracts can just be rolled back.

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There is no contract simulator AFAIK, but you can deploy contracts to a test network or your own private test network. The benefit there being it's cheaper from a Gas perspective, and you don't pollute the main network.

Aside from running on a test chain there's the Mix IDE, which basically does have a simulator, and an actual debugger. So far it's kinda unstable and tends to crash, but I like it a lot anyway.

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