developer-portal VS plutus-pioneer-program

If you see broken links please open an issue in the repository, though perhaps IOHK's server (https://hydra.iohk.io) is just down in this instance.

I'd start with the official developers portal at https://developers.cardano.org/

check: https://developers.cardano.org/

It’s easy to make a repo look very active. I guess they count commits, which is a terrible metric. Look at this PR in one of the Cardano repos: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/developer-portal/pull/471/commits

I would say to start here , then search on YouTube Plutus Pioneer course on Lars channel and you will find exercises and tutorials here

Smart contracts just got launched on Cardano a few days back (12/09/2021), so it's too early to say it will fail, just based on the fact that they've opted to go with Haskell programming language. To make things a little easier, there are some projects already working on how to write smartcontracts for Cardano in Rust and Python, this will attract some mid-level developers. They also recently launched a Cardano Developer Portal, where you have all essentials and documents to start writing smartcontracts. (https://developers.cardano.org/), additionally, all Plutus pioneers courses are available for free.

developers.cardano.org for more tutorial / how-to focus.

Take a look at the new developers portal https://developers.cardano.org/

If you want an easy entry into Plutus and Cardano smart contracts take a look at https://demeter.run/ and plutus pioneer program cohort 4 content

Step Three: learn Plutus. Check out the Plutus Pioneer Program.

There's a little more to it than cloning an existing repo and installing it somewhere. I think the very first thing you should do is go through the pioneers program. https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program

I would say to start here , then search on YouTube Plutus Pioneer course on Lars channel and you will find exercises and tutorials here

Plutus Pioneer Program

Did you even read, bro? https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program The repo is starred (773) and forked (300). People are learning for the last few months.

You can also find code for auctions, vesting, tokens, oracles, and DEXs if you're willing to look. The most skilled pioneers have already been running dApps on the Alonzo White Testnet. Exercise 6 was to create a decentralized faucet and a stablecoin.