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.

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Dang. DAMM!

Only possible on Solana I guess.

the thing that really shocked me is the deployment costs on Solana are wild - something like 10 SOL to deploy a pretty simple program iirc

design trade-offs all the way down

I thought i was dumb for not grokking it ty for this 😭

Are there libraries like oz/solady/... for Anchor? I don't know much about Solana, but given that Merkle tree implementation takes so much hassle, I guess their tps may be solely created by people doing the airdrops the old way 😮