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All Solana invocations must be done though the RPC, which is typically handled by Solana web3js. Unless you are handy with this library, you won’t be able to execute your smart contracts.
The journey of most Ethereum developers is to play around in Remix to build tokens, then migrate to building websites and developing the smart contract in hardhat or foundry.
Obviously, the anchor framework exists for a reason, so get comfortable with it. But having written programs without it, you’ll be able to understand the motivation behind the syntactic sugar and “magic” that happens at various points. Remember how everything is a file? If you want to store variables statelessly, they all need to lay out the variables end-to-end in the account. Borsh serialization library handles this for you, but you need to be comfortable using it before delegating the hard work to magic attributes.