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I'm eth newbie..just learning
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/toc Onchain strategy at terminallyonchain.xyz | co-host /latenightcrew

What is the most common mistake/thing people overlook when learning smart contract development for the first time?

1) Solidity looks like Javascript but is a lot weirder, as is the surrounding paradigm (public, permissionless, immutable, costly, deterministic, adversarial). Go down the rabbit hole to learn why things work the way they do rather than trying to ignore it or abstract over it.

3) You are using a sharp tool and should respect it. If you are programming with other people's money you need to hold yourself to a high standard of quality and correctness.

2) Determinism in the EVM is a superpower: you can fork the state of the world and precisely simulate counterfactuals.