When you look at L1s they usually try to tell you that their system is totally new and different. They want you to forget everything you already know and start over again.. Fogo is different. If you have used Solana before you will find it easy to build things with Fogo. It has the kind of virtual machine. It uses the patterns that developers are used to.. It is also very fast. The idea is not to forget what you already know. The idea is to use what you know in a place where it actually works well all the time. Fogo says bring what you know and use it somewhere it really works.
The way Fogo is positioned felt underwhelming at first. Then I thought about it from the perspective of a builder. The thing is, developers do not want to learn a framework. What developers want is for their existing skills to work, on infrastructure that does not buckle during peak traffic. Fogo is not selling something new and flashy. Fogo is