I spent 5 months learning how to build with Aiken and Mesh. To celebrate main net contracts, here are some honest thoughts about what the process has been like building on Cardano. The first month was rough. Jumping from JavaScript to Aiken was very difficult. I tried to read their docs and run their examples, but after a couple of weeks, it still hadn't clicked. The tutorials didn't always work out of the box, and the videos I could find felt incomplete. I felt dumb. I didn't even know what questions to ask. I needed the Fireship or Wes Bos of Cardano, but all I found were Big Pey and Learn Cardano who, seem chill, but only frustrated me as they didn't write code with their guests. Google should have been serving me different content, but maybe it didn't exist..