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title: "Discussion on \"The First Step Into Solana Smart Contracts: My Brutal \"Hello World\" Journey on WSL\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"The First Step Into Solana Smart Contracts: My Brutal \"Hello World\" Journey on WSL\". Specific, visceral, debugging war story"
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# [The First Step Into Solana Smart Contracts: My Brutal "Hello World" Journey on WSL](https://genesisjournal.hashnode.dev/hello-world-smartcontract-debugging?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Specific, visceral, debugging war story

Jun 23 · 8 min read · genesisjournal.hashnode.dev  
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-   [#debugging](https://hashnode.com/tag/debugging)
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I'm a passionate developer diving headfirst into the Solana ecosystem. I'm currently on a mission to go from "What is a PDA?" to building production-grade DeFi backends.

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