A lot of people in Cardano don't appreciate the open source infrastructure & tools that makes this ecosystem actually usable for new developers.
So here's my perspective after shipping a full SAP-Cardano integration over the last few months.
With my Catalyst proposal I wanted to use the most advanced, modern stack available for connecting SAP to Cardano. Native, fast, secure. On the SAP side, it was clear that TS was really the only option that made sense. But on Cardano?
Do i had to learn Haskell first?
No.
Because people in this ecosystem built tools and libraries that let developers from other ecosystems work with Cardano without starting from zero.
Since I went with TypeScript, the biggest shoutout goes to
@MicheleHarmonic and the entire
@hlabs_tech stack with plu-ts, cardano-ledger-ts, and especially Buildooor as a native TS transaction builder. Not sure what I would have done without it. π·
Buildooor is significantly easier to use than CSL, by the way. If you've worked with both, you know.
@blockfrost_io and Koios for Cardano APIs. Reliable, well-documented, and they just work.
@blinklabs_io for a dockerized Cardano CLI that I could just pull and use for signing tests. No local node setup, no hours of syncing. Just works.
@_KtorZ_ for Ogmios and its TypeScript client for a live WebSocket connection directly against a Cardano node.
And these are exactly the tools & areas we need to keep developing and funding if we want Cardano to be useful and play a role in the future.
Not more marketing. Not more governance drama.
Better developer tooling, node diversity and infrastructure.
And yes. Now is exactly the right time.
Thank you for your attention.