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Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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I guess the answer will inevitably depend on how much potential for growth you see in ETH and/or smart contracts.

I think smart contracts are here to stay.

However, I'd instead check out Cardano's (ADA) Plutus platform [0]. It's a subset of Haskell as I understand it. They have a online playground to simulate contracts [1].

Cardano also has a ERC-20 converter [2], so expect a lot of projects to also move to Cardano (given the much lower fees and higher throughput) when smart contracts are released in August/September.

0. https://docs.cardano.org/projects/plutus/en/latest/plutus/ex...

1. https://playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/

2. https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-erc-20-converter-near...

Cardano contracts won’t be released until August.. optimistically.

Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.

> payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'

And instead in a currency that's in a period of 'Transitory Panic Selloff'.

haha, touche.

"Dad, how come we are poor" "Well you see son, when i was younger I traded all my real money for fake online tokens because i thought it'd make me a millionaire"

In all fairness, if you didn't take some profit over the last 6 months the fault lies within.

Fiat currencies are manipulated! -> Elon tweets -> Surprised pikachu face.

You can do any kind of work and once paid convert it to ETH so getting paid in it is no difference (I’d say it is more inconvenient as you need to convert some to fiat and then deal with taxes)

Well, most blockchains pay in their native token. Most of these companies are have $B's next to their market cap but are very cash poor.

Any advice for someone looking to get into the field?

Read the rust book, learn substrate and ink.

Obviously not. A single contract call on Ethereum may cost you up to $120.

Ethereum is no longer practical.

Even so there are better smart contract languages like Vyper[0] & Scilla[1].

[0]:https://vyper.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[1]:http://scilla-lang.org

> Ethereum is no longer practical.

Oh please, L2 solutions already exist, EIP-1559 in the upcoming months, and Proof of Stake is 1-2 years out.

> > Ethereum is no longer practical.

> Oh please, L2 solutions already exist, EIP-1559 in the upcoming months, and Proof of Stake is 1-2 years out.

Its just one elon musk tweet away for its price to go big bang.

Unfortunately, this is far too accurate.

Your talking about promises not "solutions" that can be used today.

Proof of stake has been coming in 1 year for 4 years now.

L2 Solutions simply don't work.

Exchanges, that would benefit alot from L2 solutions have not implemented any because they know they suck from a security standpoint & other tradeoffs

This twitter thread should give an indication that developers are extremely in demand: https://twitter.com/sebaudet26/status/1394380919818051584

Yes.

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