Foundry vs Hardhat
Rust-based tooling.
What Is Foundry
Foundry is a fast, Rust-based toolkit for Ethereum development. It lets you write tests, scripts, and deployments entirely in Solidity, with no JavaScript layer required.
Its speed and Solidity-native testing have made it the dominant choice for many professional smart contract teams.
The Four Tools
Foundry ships as four command-line tools:
- forge — build, test, and deploy contracts
- cast — interact with chains and contracts from the CLI
- anvil — a local development blockchain
- chisel — a Solidity REPL
Together they cover the full development lifecycle.
All lessons in this course
- Foundry vs Hardhat
- forge Testing
- Fuzzing and Invariants
- cast and anvil