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.

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

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Dang. DAMM!

Only possible on Solana I guess.