Yesterday I profiled a simple Anchor program against Native and Pinocchio The results were as you would expect - Anchor had additional overhead that could potentially be removed CU-wise: - Anchor - 4503 CU - Native - 2959 CU - Pinocchio - 1526 CU Now to start trimming the fat

Over here profiling Anchor programs I'm on my @alessandrod arc

On the topic of Anchor, what issues do you have today? What features would you like to see in the next version of Anchor?

We had our first Anchor community call today. - Anchor V1 still has a lot of low hanging fruit - Improve the entrypoint and invoke - Overrides should be added to allow devs to optimize without Anchor - Anchor V2 doesn't need to be a full rewrite Full recording 👇

My take on the JS clients in Solana (long post) I think web3 JS was discarded too quickly. The package size was not that bad and we could have upgraded in place the problematic stuff. However that ship has sailed and we need to move on. Moving on to Kit, it is not a web3.js replacement simply because it's too verbose. This is not a problem on it's own! It's well written small and powerful. I don't think it makes sense for most app builders to consume it directly in their applications. This leaves us to today. We have a gill, wallet-ui, wallet-standard that can act as a solid stack for javascript applications on Solana. But we need to graduate them into a full stack properly. We do this by: - building templates - building examples - evolving the libraries with more helpers - Doubling down on documentation and quickly We have a fast chain, we need to foster and cherish our libraries that allow us to make equally fast applications. It's not ready yet but we are so close!

Ethereum went through this transition phase twice. Ethers replaced web3.js, followed by wagmi + viem. If you want to help us move on, please try out Gill. Give feedback and better yet, contribute back. We need to get out of this transition phase and onto the next DX problem

In Solana frontend DX, we're in a transition phase We have Kit and Gill attempting to replace web3.js, but they don't have all the bells and whistles just yet. In this phase, there's confusion and misunderstanding of what sdk to use. We need to leave this phase asap

Solana Developer Q&A

If you're not following @GuiBibeau, do so now! He's pushing us forward into a new era of Solana developers

3 month aniversary at @SolanaFndn 🧑‍🍳🧑‍🍳: - 5 university courses on track to release in September - 10 tutorials on solana dot com's learn section - Booked 12 university events for back to school - learned anchor, pinocchio, gill, wallet-ui - 2 in person workshops Sharing q4 plans soon!