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Algorand is great but the developer community has (almost completely) converged on Solidity and EVM as the dev platform of choice.

A lot of chains have made been made EVM compatible recently. Not sure if this is possible in Algorand yet. But I fear that any alternative will have a hard time.

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Meh, if the boosters are right, it’s very very early in the space, and we see turnover in frameworks, languages, and operating systems in regular tech all the time. Ethereum has a big first-mover advantage, but at least when I dabbled in Solidity a couple of years ago, didn’t seem very well-run?

It is very early. But I was at one of the bug conferences recently (Lisbon) and it was surprising how much tooling has been built or is being built for EVM. Felt like it’s becoming the natural choice and all the young devs all they talked about was Solidity.

Solana is in Rust so that’s smart I suppose.

Have you used it alongside truffle suite recently? https://www.trufflesuite.com/tutorial I was pleasantly surprised how well put together the development tools felt.

The tooling system was ok even then, but core development seemed listless. Vitalik gave a keynote at a conference I went to and talked about why it was actually good for the ecosystem that he and all the core contributors spent all their time traveling to conferences.

Since then, transactions per day on the network have doubled, but gas costs are up 10X in gwei and some truly ludicrous multiplier in dollars. I suspected then that the switch to Proof of Stake and other scaling fixes was the fusion power of ETH, always six months away, and that concern looks really vindicated.

Vitalik is less technical than people think. He’s more of an evangelist.

Perhaps that's why Avalanche is doing so well. They get rid of many of the current problems of Ethereum and offer an EVM.

Yes it is IMO.

There is no such thing as "the developer community" converging.

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