dipping my toes into solidity development

Is truffle/ganache the go to for local development and testing?

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Is Hardhat > Truffle, if I had to pick one of those? 

I do want to write my tests in Typescript and it seems like Foundry could be a steeper learning curve for testing and deployment.

This is the right answer, best dev experience by far