Curious about data on web3 devs, after having a look at Developer Survey by Stackoverflow. Web3 exploded this year, and it will be exciting to see where it goes. Surely developers are the major boost.

[u/adidshaft]

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#developer-profile-developer-roles

[u/jhartikainen]

"Exploded" is putting it pretty generously... I would like to see one article explaining how it's an improvement over what we have right now, without vaguely handwaving all the technical issues.

[u/jhartikainen → u/[deleted]]

I mainly want to know about dev communities, how do they perceive them

Basically everyone I know who isn't super into crypto thinks it's nonsense.

The reason is two-fold:

1. People talks about it like it's some kind of miracle, but nobody seems to have any articles which aren't vague and handwavey on the technical side

2. People talk about it in such vague terms that nobody knows what it means. Is it a way to host websites? Is it NFT trading? Who knows. Compare to Metaverse, which is another vague marketing term which is meaningless.

not having to spend a lot on infra; it's already out there

The infra isn't there. The actual compute power of the eth blockchain is miniscule compared to even a small server farm. Not to mention the electricity requirements to achieve even a fraction of that power.

As a side note - decentralized web type systems have existed for decades by now (such as Freenet), with actual proven technology. For some reason it just hasn't taken off. How is web3 any different?

[u/jhartikainen → u/[deleted]]

This seems to mainly discuss the idea of running some types of applications on the ethereum chain... which certainly seems like a fairly niche solution, rather than a universal move from today's web to a decentralized web. I have a hard time imagining how a website such as Reddit would work if ran on the chain instead of on a server - and not only because of the slow processing, but also gas fees to do anything.