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project-reports/2024/2024-annual-Hyperledger-Solang.md

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+title: Hypereledger Solang
+parent: 2024
+grand_parent: Hyperledger TOC
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+# Project Health
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+The 2024 forecast for Solang is showing growth despite the number of pull requests and reported issues going down, Here are the three reasons why:
+1- Stellar organization decided to fund Solang long term, to add Soroban as a compilation target.
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+2- Work is ongoing in Hyperledger Solang Playground, a web IDE that will enable easy onboarding to the Solang ecosystem. Funding is provided by the Web3 Foundation. 
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+3- Hyperledger Solang-Aqd (a smart contract CLI tool) was developed in the 2023 mentorship, by Tarek Naser, and it will be integrated into Solang Playground.
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+# Maintainer Diversity
+- Another maintainer from a different organization has been added: Salaheldin Soliman. His main tasks are to add Soroban as a compilation target and on-boarding production projects to Solang.
+This makes Solang have 4 maintainers from 3 different organizations: Solana, Parity, and Stellar.
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+- Sean young and Lucas Steuernagel have been redeployed to other projects within Solana, but they will still continue contributing to Solang by reviewing pull requests and addressing issues.
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+# Project Adoption
+
+The maintainer team has identified the issue with Solang's slow adoption in 2023: the lack of developer tooling and advocacy. Although a lot of work has gone into making a full-on compiler for Solidity, we need to provide easy ways for Solidity developers to start using Solang. The maintainer team will work on tutorials and easy-to-use tools to supplement Solang.
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+# Goals
+
+## Performance Against Prior Goals
+Prior goals for Solang mainly involved making Solang more attractive to Solidity developers as stated in the 2023 [Q4 plans](https://https://github.com/hyperledger/toc/blob/gh-pages/project-reports/2023/2023-Q4-Hyperledger-Solang.md#current-plans)
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+There have been many contributions to that cause, but they involved Solang itself and not its sidecar tools.
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+## Next Year's Goals
+The main goal is to on-board more users and production projects to Hyperledger Solang. 
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+## Help Required
+The maintainer team is 100% development oriented. We would need technical writing support from the Hyperledger team to review tutorials and explanations related to Solang.
+
+# Project Lifecycle Stage Recommendation
+
+We would recommend Solang to stay in the incubation phase until its sidecar tools (Solang Playground and Solang-Aqd) have reached maturation.