⚡️ Added Mermaid diagrams of trait inheritance and contract dependencies to the compilation report

Did you know, that Tact produces a report of each compilation in markdown format? If not, take a quick look at what it offers:

• Resulting BoC size of the contract in bytes
• TL-B schemes of all Structs and Messages alongside with their Tact signatures
• List of all getter functions
• List of exit codes, both default and produced by calls to require()

And now, Tact also automatically generates neat Mermaid diagrams of trait inheritance and contract dependencies, and puts them in that .md file! Check your build folders once in a while, it's definitely worth it.

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Gusarich
🐙 Implementation: #560
🍽 To be released in: v1.4.1

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🎉 Tact 1.4.2 has just landed on NPM!

🐞 We fixed a few type-checking and code generation bugs. One of the most important fixes is that getters again return flattened types for structs as it used to be. We broke it while trying to allow structs with more than 15 fields. Please give it a try and let us know if the issue is gone now — all your bug reports are really appreciated.

🛠 A bunch of the other changes include improved support for the misti static smart-contract analyzer — give it a try, it’s in early stage of development but already found some issues in soon-to-be released projects.

— The Tact team

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🎉 Tact 1.4.3 has just landed on NPM!

🐞 We fixed a couple more issues and provided a fix for a special case of optional types in getter return types. Happy hacking, Tacticians!

— The Tact team

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🎉 Tact 1.4.4 has just landed on NPM!

Fixed a few bugs and added AST equality comparison API mostly for third-party tools, like the misti static smart-contract analyzer. The API also be used to compare contracts without taking into account whitespace, comments or even order of definitions and declarations.

More details as always can be found in the changelog.

— The Tact team

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🎉 Misti 0.2 has just landed on NPM!

🔍 Five New Tact Detectors: Сonstant Address, Branch Duplicate, `dump` Is Used, Field Initialized Twice, Prefer Augmented Assignment.

🛠 Blueprint Support: Introducing the new Blueprint Plugin.

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements: More configuration options and various fixes. Check out the full changelog.

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🎉 Misti 0.3 has just landed on NPM!

⚡️Tact 1.5 Support

🔍 Five New Tact Detectors: String Receivers Overlap, Asm Is Used, Preferred Stdlib API, Inherited State Mutation, Argument Copy Mutation.

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements: More configuration options, optimization and API improvements. Check out the full changelog.

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🎉 Tact 1.5.2 has just landed on NPM!

Remember, that we've introduced asm functions in version 1.5.0 for you to write TVM assembly right in your Tact code?

asm fun keccak256(s: Slice): Int {
    1 INT HASHEXT_KECCAK256
}

🐞 With this bugfix release, you now can use full* range of its syntax just like you could in similar asm functions of FunC. Just don't do anything too crazy, like trying to shadow (re-define) { or }, or using char } inside your newly defined instructions.

Other than that, have it your way. Note, that support of full Fift+TVM syntax is highly experimental, and will be reworked in future releases, in particular the following works now, but most likely won’t work at some point:

fun onchainSha256(data: String): Int {
    _onchainShaPush(data);
    while (_onchainShaShouldProceed()) {
        _onchainShaOperate();
    }
    return _onchainShaHashExt();
}

// Helper assembly functions,
// each manipulating the stack in their own ways
// in different parts of the `onchainSha256()` function
asm fun _onchainShaPush(data: String) { ONE }
asm fun _onchainShaShouldProceed(): Bool {
    OVER SREFS 0 NEQINT
}
asm fun _onchainShaOperate() {
    OVER LDREF s0 POP CTOS s0 s1 XCHG INC
}
asm fun _onchainShaHashExt(): Int {
    HASHEXT_SHA256
}

🐞 Additionally, all new installations of @tact-lang/compiler or @ton/blueprint via npm should work as expected. All other package managers continue to work fine, so create more awesome projects! We'll handle the rest ❤️

👀 And keep an eye on the docs, something big might happen very soon!

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👏 Huge 👏 Revamp 👏 of Tact 👏 Docs 👏

There were a lot of things we just couldn't do nicely with the previous documentation library, Nextra. Granted, it's very good and has a lot going for it, but its rigidity in important places, as well as its overall pull towards Next.js and Vercel make some features like i18n almost impossible to implement while keeping the static build and not doing the server-side rendering.

It is finally time to move to a more flexible solution: Starlight, a documentation library powered by Astro that allows for great extensibility and bundles (among other things): advanced i18n support via i18next, site navigation, search, SEO, easy-to-read typography, code highlighting, dark mode and more. It's also very lightweight and snappy.

This move brought a lot of enhancements, here's a very short list (there's more!):

0️⃣ Translating the docs to another language (i18n) is super easy now. Just take the original English page, translate it, and put the file in the appropriate folder. That's it, the next deployments would feature your translated page as if it was always there ✨

1️⃣ The search via Ctrl + K (fuzzy full-site search) has been greatly improved. In addition, since all the pages are located in the sidebar, you now can use Ctrl + F (content search) to quickly find the page in any of the sections: Book, Cookbook, and Ecosystem!

2️⃣ Fixed issues with highlighting of code blocks in the light mode. The similar change for inline code highlighting will follow in the future too!

3️⃣ tact-docs repo has been merged into the Tact compiler one, which means that all new feature and standard library updates will arrive in docs much faster than before! Besides, you'll see badges like "Since version X.Y.Z" under each new feature, so that you'll know when to expect things and which Tact version to use for them :)

Things that didn't make the list include updates that are mostly relevant to the team and maintainers of the docs. For example:

1. It's much easier to influence the SEO of each page with good denoscriptions and image covers where needed
2. It's super easy to customize the docs with: CSS styles, JS noscripts, Markdown pre-processing plugins, HTML pre-processing and post-processing plugins, ...
3. ...and so on and so forth

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #880
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org

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⚡️ Added destructuring statements

It's a concise way to unpack Structs and Messages into distinct variables, which mirrors the instantiation syntax:

// Definition of Example
struct Example { number: Int }

fun basic() {
    // Basic syntax of destructuring assignment
    // is shown on the left of "=":
    let Example { number } =
        Example { number: 42 };

    // The syntax above is roughly equivalent
    // to the following statements:
    let example = Example { number: 42 };
    let number = example.number;
}

One can also create bindings under different variable names or ignore some of the fields. Note, that the order doesn't matter:

// "first" goes first, then goes "second"
struct Two { first: Int; second: String }

// a helper function
fun makeTwo(): Two {
    return Two {
        first: 42,
        second: "yee-haw",
    };
}

// 👀
fun totalDestruction() {
    // The "first" field is ignored,
    // while the value of "second"
    // is bound under the "cowboy"
    // variable from now on:

    let Two {
        second: cowboy,
        first: _,
    } = makeTwo();
}

🧑‍🍳 Contributors: Gusarich, Novus Nota (docs)
🐙 Implementation: #856
🍽 To be released in: v1.6.0

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⚡️ Added automatic links to Web IDE from code blocks in Cookbook section of the docs

Did you know, that just like the Remix for Ethereum, TON has an official Web IDE? If not, take a quick look at what it offers:

• Tact and FunC project creation
• Code highlighting and snippets for Tact and FunC
• Semi-automatic Build → Deploy pipeline on every save
• Convenient buttons to call getters and send messages to deployed contracts
• Deploy to Sandbox, testnet and mainnet
• Share button ↗️ on every file in a file tree
• ...plus a lot more!

And now any code samples from the Cookbook are right at your fingertips — just press the "Open in Web IDE" button, and the contents of the code block would automagically transfer to Web IDE!

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #994
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/cookbook

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🎉 Misti 0.5 has just landed on NPM!

🔍 More Tact Detectors: Covered Tact-specific issues like CellOverflow, SuspiciousMessageMode, UnboundMap achieving totally 25 detectors.

⚠️ Warning Suppressions: Suppress specific warnings using // @misti:suppress DetectorName comments.

💡 Usability Enhancements: Install Misti with a single command and run it on the directory containing your contracts—no extra configuration required:

npm install -g @nowarp/misti
misti path/to/src/contracts

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements: More configuration options, optimization and improvements. Check out the full changelog.

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⚡️ Watch Tact & DevTools talk from 2nd day of TON Gateway
🌀 It's a whirlwind tour of progress made in Tact and ecosystem, plus the plans for the future!

🎞 If loading the video on Telegram is too much, start watching at the timestamp on YouTube
👀 For more, see the full recording of TON Gateway | Day 2

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❤️ A warm welcome to listeners of good podcasts @tonpizdev
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⚡️ Heads-up: there are more than 2100 Tact source files on GitHub, not counting forks and the tact-lang organization!

It would be nice to get Tact code highlighted there, don't you think? That's why we've made a PR to Linguist, a language detection and highlighting library from Github.

Here's how you can help:
1. Go to the PR
2. Leave your 👍 without writing any comments, to keep PR clean
3. Keep writing nice open source contracts in Tact 🙌
4. Wait for the best 🤞

This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill.
This is the beginning of the story.

UPD: ❤

🍲 our story, actually
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