starknet-messaging-bridge VS warp

Are you a dev looking to deploy contracts on StarkNet? Check this out Learning Cairo syntax from 0 https://github.com/starknet-edu/starknet-cairo-101 Deploying an ERC20 https://github.com/starknet-edu/starknet-erc20 Deploying an ERC721 https://github.com/starknet-edu/starknet-erc721 Building a front end https://medium.com/encode-club/starknet-js-video-slides-2a2f8387c9d Building a cross layer application https://github.com/starknet-edu/starknet-messaging-bridge In general, our educational repositories go here https://github.com/starknet-edu

starknet-messaging-bridge

Are you guys developing a Zkevm? If so, what's one of the biggest challenges? Great question! No, we are developing a ZKevm. We are working with Nethermind on Warp, which is a transpiler which allows solidity devs to deploy their solidity code to StarkNet. It is the same approach used by other ZK Rollups, we just don't call it a ZKevm.

I started learning a bit of Cairo last week while I was at EthDenver... Something I wanted to ask was what's the point of learning Cairo vs. just Solidity and using their Cairo transpiler? Anyone could ELI5? Warp https://github.com/NethermindEth/warp

ZKevm is basically the holy grail for 2022. Starkware has a decent head start with the Nethermind Warp transpiler, but it's not a perfect solution and if a competitor like ZKsync or Polygon or Loopring can launch ZKevm quicker they might take the first-mover advantage, particularly since both all three options have easy fiat onramps right now but starknet doesn't (yet).