👨‍💻 Developer Program Q1 2022 Report

We’re happy to share what’s been done in this area:

— API and SDK significantly improved.

— TON documentation revisited: from basic concepts to Toncoin payment acceptance code examples.

— New network explorers emerged.

— Dev tools — e.g., MyLocalTON — majorly revamped. New perfect tools such as toncli and IDEA Plugin were delivered by developer community itself.

— Rules for publishing apps and dApps on the ton.app catalogue were eased. From now on, anyone can list their product following a simplified moderation procedure. Community channels issue round-ups of newly arrived TON products.

— Big work on TON browser extension as one of the main ways to interact with dApps.

— New independent dev platform tonic.cx, which hosts AMA sessions from time to time. In general, we see a notable growth of chats and other communication channels for TON developers in many languages.

— Special attention is paid to competitions among developers. @toncontests keeps organizing more and more contests, the most recent of which – CodeTON on Codeforces, saw over 11,000 programmers participate. At the time of writing, there’s an ongoing Smart Challenge with a prize fund of $30,000 — a great way to get acquainted with the FunC language that’s used for writing TON smart contracts.

We’re thrilled to see new products and teams along with pull requests to open-source repos coming in volumes.

We’re not stopping at this. TON developers and product creators will always be one of the top priorities in The Open Network.