Solana

[egasimus]

Some thoughts on where we are with Solana support:

• Depends on Rust support.

• The API needs to be polished some more and the test coverage completed so that the Solana support can be exposed in Fadroma.

• It would be interesting to enable bootstrapping Solana projects that don't use IDL or Anchor - just solana_program.

[solzarr]

Agreed. Solid Rust support, a more stable API, and complete test coverage are prerequisites before exposing Solana support in Fadroma. Supporting bootstrapping of pure solana_program projects (without IDL/Anchor) would be a meaningful addition, especially for lower-level or custom program workflows.

[egasimus]

Thank you for your feedback!

I'd say the prerequisites for IDL-free Solana support in Fadroma are already in place! An earlier incarnation of the utilities in Solana.ts was used for some intensive full-stack integration testing of Solana programs, which I'd say turned out rather well.

Some months ago, I encountered a Solana project which impressed me with its minimalism. Can't find it right now - think author wrote something based like "how I made this: by writing it" in the README; IIRC it was someone's MEV/frontrunner thing - anyway, gonna look for it some more...

Point being: maybe what's been missing since the original PoCs is a similar "capstone" project to give Solana support in Fadroma its final shape. Something to demonstrate the whole "Solana without IDL" concept, by way of implementing, like, one cool feature. What do you think is underexplored in Solana and worth building to showcase Fadroma?

(Some things that go well with this library are isomorphic JS/TS, temporary wallets in static SPAs, Deno, WASM, emulating transactions, bringing heavy-ass vendor SDKs to browsers that weren't originally written to work in browsers... the works, basically)