Just wrote a very simple Solana account for claiming SPL tokens with an secp256k1 signature.

Nearly died.

What can be done under 5 minutes and 73 lines in very readable Solidity has been bloated to 300+ lines of Rust Anchor code that took more than 20 hours.

I’m not even sure if it’s correct without spending weeks to write tests.

In Solidity, Signatures / Merkle Trees are considered beginner stuff.

In Anchor, Signatures / Merkle Tress are considered advanced stuff.

And the compilation times… fuck. It’s 10x slower than —via-ir on even the most hardcore Solidity codebases.

This makes me understand why they are mostly pushing UX and relabeled memecoins.