Great points to ponder. Love to hear from another Web2 techie who’s now dabbling in Web3.
We’re definitely aligned on heading in the direction of developer adoption, by having the Foundation support SDKs in JS (see NPM trends), Python, GoLang and Java. I’m gathering the trends and measuring how developers are going through their journey, from ideation to mainnet. Here’s a snapshot of how often the algosdk is pulled via NPM for Javascript developers
We’re trending the right direction! (during the end of year holiday season, every codebase has that dip)
… and we flipped Polkadot in Oct 2022!
There’s also a long tail of Community-based SDKs as well in Rust, PHP, Swift (yes, iOS!!!), Dart, .NET and Unity.