🫧 Tolk v1.3... not released yet: what's happening inside
I know it has been quiet.
The last public Tolk update was three months ago, so the question is fair:
❓ Where did I go, and why is there still no v1.3?
I did not disappear. I have been working on something much bigger than the next language release.
A huge part of my focus has shifted toward building a TON toolchain together with the team.
Not another small utility. Not another isolated CLI. A full development environment built as one coherent system — around Tolk.
⚙️ So what do I mean by a toolchain?
The core of TON development. A single tool that:
✔ Scaffolds real projects. Contracts, unit tests, integration tests, TypeScript wrappers, and ready-to-use templates.
✔ Runs tests. 50x faster than the current JS sandbox. And even more: tests are native, no Node.js required.
✔ Gives you a real debugger. Test failed with exit code 9? Stop exactly at the exception, inspect the call stack, local variables, lazy fields, and more. One thing I am especially proud of: there is no "compile without optimizations" mode. It works with fully-optimized production contracts.
✔ Visualizes transaction flows. Run a test and immediately see the full chain of generated transactions in a clean local UI.
✔ Covers the rest of the workflow too: code coverage and gas profiling; formatter and language server; verifier and ABI generation; all of it AI-friendly, with agent skills and MCP built-in.
✅ The goal is to reboot development on TON
When Tolk appeared, it made FunC feel like the old world. Tolk is not just "a bit better" — it feels like a different era.
Now we are doing the same for the entire on-chain development stack. Not just to improve existing tools a little — but the current approach will feel fundamentally outdated.
🌳 I originally planned to announce all of this at TON Gateway. But it was cancelled, so I am lifting the curtain a little earlier.
The timeline has not changed: early May.
And early May is very close.
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