A survey of 435 developers from 73 different countries reveals that you can learn to program Solidity, Ethereum's preferred language in no time. In fact, the majority of respondents stated that they achieved this themselves in less than six months. The results of the survey were published on February 7 on the Solidity blog.
Solidity is a programming language that allows you to create smart contracts on Ethereum and other blockchains. This type of language bears certain similarities to other popular languages, such as C, Python and JavaScript.
According to the study, more than 57% of respondents said it took them less than six months to become productive with Solidity. In fact, almost half of them said they achieved it in just one month. Only 7% said it took at least a year and the rest could not give an answer as they are still in their first 6 months.
The majority (approximately 80%) of respondents indicated that they use Solidity on a daily or weekly basis. The rest stated that they use it occasionally because they work mostly in other languages, such as JavaScript.
It is worth noting that the survey does not indicate what the participants' starting point was, nor whether they had prior knowledge of programming or not. According to different Latin American programmers, it is advisable to start learning JavaScript, Phyton or C first so that it is easier to train in Solidity. This was stated, for example, by "Reina" from Colombia, Cristobal Pereira from Chile and "Sheinix" from Argentina.
I agree, building things in crypto is more fun than trading!
There are many online resources where you can learn to program, if you don't have the basics, I would say start learning programming with javascript or Python and then get into Solidity/SmartContracts!
- shΞinix (@sheinix) March 15, 2021
Argentina, Hispanic country in the study with more developers in the Ethereum ecosystem
Most of the developers surveyed were from the United States with 20% and India with 9%. The Hispanic country with the highest number of developers was Argentina, which ranked eighth out of the 73 countries considered.
This was followed by Spain in 15th place, Colombia in 23rd place and Mexico in 35th place. Although it is worth noting that 9% of the 435 respondents did not want to answer in which country they live.
The number of respondents and the methodology used may not allow an unequivocal conclusion to be drawn. In any case, the large presence of programmers from the South American country in various Ethereum projects is undeniable. Mention can be made, for example, of Santiago Siri with his UBI basic income token; Federico Ast, CEO of Kleros; and Mariano Conti, former head of Oracles at MakerDAO, the organization behind the DAI stablecoin.
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The cool thing is that you can learn solidity and build for several chains and layer 2 solutions. It’s certainly a good language to learn in todays time.
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