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just looked at a 3 year old project of mine – oh how times have changed

frontend
- create-react-app
- ethers
- didn't know how to monorepo
- *.module.css
- wagmi just for generating hooks for the contracts

smart contracts are maybe even more interesting
- hardhat
- ethers
- ethereum-waffle
- typechain
- chai

Hardhat + ethers was rough man 😭 

Want to believe Hardhat can make a comeback in V3 but not holding my breath.

DX Engineer | DevRel at OpenZeppelin | Building orbiter.host & bhvr.dev | opinions are my own

not sure what it would take for me to switch back tbh. foundry is really great and writing solidity tests in solidity just kinda makes sense 🤷‍♂️

also i love ethers for being a great iteration on ethereum devx but viem is strictly better, no doubt about it

oh tell me about it

some of the legacy code that i have to deal with on a daily basis at coinbase use internal libraries instead of of wagmi/ethers which is even worse 😆

Totally agree personally, it’s hard to imagine using it any other way. Unfortunately I found out by joining OpenZeppelin that plenty of people still use Hardhat as the default, so I gotta keep up with both :( Would love to see improvements that change my mind but fundamentally it’s hard to see.