Hi, @wirednkod, it is nice to hear your thoughts about the refined proposal. Thanks for this. Let me try to answer your concerns:
I highly trust that a plugin (or 2) of existing IDE’s would be much more helpful than a playground and (honestly) sounds like a smaller milestone than a Browser App so I would prefer to see that than (yet another) browser playground.
I tried to share with Josep in my previous comment above (see: answers 4, 5, 6 and 7) the reasoning. I would kindly ask you, if you could read these answers again and please let me know why you think plugins would be a better approach from your POV. I would honestly like to understand it, but maybe referring to my arguments would help me to do so.
As I mentioned before in discord, to one of your team members, what I would like to see in the next proposal, is a first small milestone that will produce a small but workable tool what the deliverables will be - meaning what this tool will be and what feature it will add, the approach that you will follow, and mainly
I think answers to Josep’s questions 1, 2 and 3 can give the best answer to this.
… and very important the members of the team that will execute this first milestone, and their expertise.
And regarding the team, the core will be myself and @serapath. We both worked together for the Ethereum Foundation for 3 yeats and literally started and architected the Remix IDE during that time and later on worked on independent solidity tooling (you can watch our Web3 Summit Talk from 2019) so we have all the expertise needed. But we will need additional engineers. We plan to hire 2 more. Luckily we have a pool of people from working for more than a decade on various projects and for 8+ years in web3. We already worked with some of them in the past and during our first proposal we reached out to them and some are available for hire, but of course we can’t finalize the contracts before we have the scope and the budget confirmed.
I would also suggest, when pasting conversations with known members of the ecosystem, to also add the links to these conversations so one can follow up the responses/discussion
You are right, links to the original posts are definitely a smart thing to add instead of just the screenshots, so, I will post them here:
- Alex’s comment on our 903 proposal (sadly no direct link to the comment is available, so search Alex and 3rd hit is the comment) Plaza smart contract tooling
- Rob’s tweet x.com
- Alex’s comment on our previous forum post Plaza smart contract editor (IDE) - Project Proposal - #14 by Alex
Thanks a lot in advance for your time 