Noir

Spent the night playing around with noir again. It's been a few months since I checked it out last, and I feel like it's at the point now where I'm having fun figuring it out. Reminds me of how solidity felt around 2017~2018.

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

Need to check out the js tooling next, and if that is a nice experience I can see noir becoming my go to for zk instead of circom

Product Manager of Noir; casts about ZK, privacy, decentralization and protocol design.

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The biggest thing so far was while I was installing the bb backend I needed to install another dependency before I could get it to work, but I searched the discord and found it pretty quick.

Something that might be a convenient feature is being able to cast an array of u1s into a field element, but I have no idea on if that's technically plausible.

I'm a little surprised that there isn't a native U256 type since it's pretty ubiquitous in blockchain spaces now. But, I see there is one in the bignum library, I'm just a little confused about how to actually use them from that.

Other than that it's mostly getting used to the rust like syntax. It's been fun!

Lovely to hear!

What have been unexpected bumps you've run into so far?

Haha, I'm expecting that. Version compatibility definitely wasn't easy with circom and js either

Beware of version incompatibility in JS land and Noir/native land. Pita.