Our long-term plan to unleash Ethereum’s developer experience potential. — Editor’s Note (Sept 2023): Our Rust runtime project, previously named Rethnet, has been renamed to EDR (Ethereum Development Runtime). For clarity, we’ve updated this piece. A development platform is only as successful as its tools, and the higher the complexity in the platform-language combination, the more its success depends on…

The Solidity editing experience you’ve been waiting for, coming in 2022 — After making great leaps in key aspects of Ethereum’s developer experience, like speed and runtime visibility, we’ve been working on improving another fundamental aspect that we’ve highlighted in the past: Solidity editing assistance. With some Solidity codebases reaching tens of thousands of lines of code, this has been a significant…

Ethereum’s most sophisticated deployment solution yet, coming in 2022 — Deploying smart contracts is a crucial step in the Ethereum development process, and it’s always been challenging to get right. Solutions with obvious limitations have been the norm, and it makes sense that it’s been this way. Investing months into building a sophisticated solution that’s only going to save at…

The very beginning of our developer experience collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation dates back to July 2019, and since it’s been just over a year since we started the formal engagement it’s a good time to recapitulate and reflect upon what progress has been made. This is the third post…

Mainnet forking, support for multiple compiler versions, Etherscan code verification, and crazy-fast compiling — For those of you who don’t know, B̵u̵i̵d̵l̵e̵r̵ Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software. Introducing Hardhat, the new and evolved version of Buidler. This release is a special one for two reasons. Naturally, the first is due to the rebrand. While we’ll…

Our approach to road-mapping the improvement of the Ethereum developer experience — As mentioned in my previous post, Nomic Labs has been working closely with the Ethereum Foundation in coordinating the ecosystem to drive improvements in developer experience. …

A dedicated Ethereum developer experience effort — Since 2020 Nomic Labs has been working in close collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation, and I’m pretty excited to finally tell you about it! We’re leading the EF’s developer experience improvement initiative, and our role includes being a Type C Delegated Domain Allocator. …

👷‍♀️ One plugin at a time. — Buidler is a command line development tool used to facilitate frequent tasks that are essential to a developer’s workflow. It unlocks productivity through flexibility, interoperability, and standardization — leading to compounding value across all developer tools. How? To give you some context first, with Buidler developers can compile, test, and deploy…

Deeper TypeScript support, better plugin development UX and Gitcoin bounties. — We’re excited to announce that the beta 2 release of Buidler is ready! What is Buidler though? Buidler is an extensible developer tool that helps Solidity developers increase productivity by reliably bringing together the tools they want. …