I think the no complete onboarding resource for devs is a big one. I think there should be more links at the very least to the community maintained libraries for each language. I think the NIPs are simple enough… but because we are using somewhat esoteric key generation… that definitely adds some cognitive overhead. It’d be cool to have a basic starter project in a few different languages. Here’s the one I was working on over the weekend that helped me understand the implementation details a lot more: https://github.com/alexwhb/nostr-client-python-learning

I also agree with your perspective on the user side. I think not only that… but average people are still writing their password as “Password”… so to have them managing a public private key pair seems tricky. Maybe if we can figure out a way for that key pair to auto sync with Apple Passwords or Google Passwords or whatever for the people who don’t use password managers might help. Or maybe create some sort of way of translating a password into a public private key pair so the known UX can still happen. Just some thoughts.

I'm glad you didn't mention #PHP ;)

Oh ya I actually took a quick glance at that yesterday. If I was writing something I wanted to be production ready… I’d totally go for that. I do feel a bit apprehensive using python libraries that are non native to python when trying to learn something new, however. Simply because it’s harder to debug and understand all the little details, that being said I think this is probably the right way to go if you’re building anything other people will use. I also really love rust (not that I’m good at it).