Zircon is a hub for guided and gamified courses, coding challenges reminiscent of LeetCode, and a sandbox for sharing Solana-related code snippets within minutes.
To put it simply: I felt like this needed to exist
I've been helping new developers learn how to build on Solana for almost two years now, and each time I've wished something like this existed to point them to. Here are a few of the thoughts behind why I built this:
- Tutorial hell is rampant in this industry. A guided course component (much like CryptoZombies & Buildspace) could help break the monotony and in-turn onboard more developers
- Evaluating potential developers requires combing their GitHub, a potentially time-consuming process
- Setting up an environment to share and run code snippets for Solana is annoying