You can download Ethereum wallet software and access your wallet account and deploy contract accounts. However, to perform these operations, you would have to download the blockchain. This makes Ethereum wallet software less developer-friendly. On the other hand, the MetaMask, Remix, Truffle, and Ganache tools provide fast and developer-friendly environments. Hence, Ethereum wallet is not used mostly by the developers.
There might be some special requirements when you are deploying your own private Ethereum network; in that case, Ethereum wallet should be used.
We are not covering Ethereum wallet's features in this book. The reader can download and play with it to understand its features and limitations. You can download Ethereum wallet software Mist from https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases.
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