Solana (SOL) Developers are Looking forward to Have Lot of Improvements

Solana developers recently set out to improve things for themselves by initiating a discussion.  It all started with the statement “Over the course of the last year there has been a large increase in content and tooling to improve the developer experience. But what’s missing that would greatly improve the developer experience, especially for new developers?”

Peer developers expressed their opinions as follows:  A stack overflow style forum where previously answered questions are easily searchable. from what we see, a lot of new developer questions are actually already answered – but on discords.

Reverse engineering tools and extractor for analyzing deployed contract.

Better organization of the existing material as the the main dev page on the sol website includes links which are outdated and aren’t ordered by what should be read first, second, etc

Interactive learning like crypto-zombies for solidity. This might be harder to achieve on Solana, but I think this offers a passive and rewarding way to enter the ecosystem

A roadmap to start in Solana as a new developer.  I’m not sure if it already exists, but maybe like a BootCamp kind of thing? Someplace where you can learn with others, interact with instructors, and do that sort of thing would be neat! (IRL or not)

While others said, try out Solana-base-app, read through Solana cookbook, understanding of the Solana PDA would become a necessity. There is also a Github Solana onboarding stuff available – one of the peer developer stated that it is 100% being worked on.

There’s a lot of great intro content out there already from great devs, which make sol easy to learn but the problem is it’s not easy to find.

Companies taking on non-rust devs of other languages as interns and teaching them the ropes. Honestly many projects do this already, but usually once they see some passion via open source contributions.

Beginner tutorials with vanilla Solana programs that mirror Anchor programs doing the same thing. More Anchor tutorials with examples and explanations on how to use PDAs and CPIs.

Better IDE plugins and formal support for common Rust tools (e.g., tarpaulin). Basically, it’d be nice to bridge the gap between Solana Rust and standard Rust so all the tools can be reused.

It is very difficult to find clear information for marketing managers, product managers, what advantages of Solana can be used in digital projects.

I think there should be some more focus on troubleshooting setup environments on different systems, work on getting ppls foot in the door and the rest will fall in place.

Better quick starts for building NFT collections, defi programs (smart contracts).  The ability to write solidity or typescript as solana programs would be dope. Maybe dart instead of typescript for the compiler.

We need the Solana foundation to sponsor research to make cute cat girls/boys a real thing.