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Discoverability of developer tooling

The problem

We have lots of tooling built by the community but it is hard to find. While this might be less of an issue for very active developers who monitor the forum and Discord, and are well connected on Twitter, newcomers are having a hard time. We need to think about a scalable way to make developer tools, libraries and so on discoverable.

During the last months a lot of developer tooling with potential to increase productivy has been released, e.g.

and many more.

What we've done so far

  • Many of them were supported by DFINITY's Developer Grants program, and some of them are displayed on the InternetComputer.org showcases page.
    However, most are not and they are probably also not very easy to discover for developers if they were. In addition, there's a content management system behind the page and new content can't be easily added by a PR.

  • We started listing community-driven agents and CDKs, but it'll be hard to integrate tooling and services into the documentation.

  • We also have Awesome DFINITY, which lists not only developer tooling and hasn't been updated in the last months, and there's the community currated Awesome Motoko which focuses on Motoko.

What can we do to improve the situation?

We expect that the number of tools, libraries and services will increase going forward. Therefore, we need a scalable way to categorize tools, and curation shouldn't be done by DFINITY alone. However, as we are responsible for the Grants program, we could ask grantees to add their projects.

  • What do you think is needed to increase discoverability of tooling?
  • Do you know any good examples of other ecosystems we could take as role models?
  • Do you think a resurrection of Awesome DFINITY would move the needle for discoverability?
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