A series of improvements to Tact Language

[Gusarich]

Summary

Implement necessary improvements and features in Tact language used for writing TON smart contracts

Bounty Context

Why it's Important?
Tact language is the core for writing smart contracts in TON. This being the case, improving its functionality, user-friendliness, and the implementation of new features is crucial in ensuring the efficiency and user experience of contract creation in TON Blockchain.

Problem showcase
Currently, Tact language for TON is quite young in its development stage. There are a multitude of things that need implementation, fixing and improvement.

Potential Solution
The solution involves working on multiple pull requests with new features and improvements for Tact language. The pull requests will be based on the listed items from the public roadmap for the development of Tact language. By systematically implementing these requested changes, we can significantly enhance Tact language readiness for production and user-friendliness.

To-do list

• Augmented assignment operators tact-lang/tact#87
• add .del function to maps tact-lang/tact#95
• add ubuntu & windows & macos CI tact-lang/tact#96
• Add conditional expressions tact-lang/tact#97
• Add bin and oct integer literals & Allow underscores in them tact-lang/tact#99
• Slices and Strings comparisons tact-lang/tact#105
• Add native map traversing functionality tact-lang/tact#106
• Refactor CI workflow and add tact-template testing tact-lang/tact#111

This list may be filled with more features based on feedback from developers

References

• Tact Language roadmap

REWARD

• SBT Bounty Reward
• 3000 USD in TON

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[Gusarich]

@delovoyhomie please assign me to this issue 🙂

[delovoyhomie]

@anton-trunov, let's decide a reward for this bounty!

[Gusarich]

@delovoyhomie I think something around 2-3k USD will be fair reward for this bounty.

[anton-trunov]

I think USD 3k is definitely fair for this amount of work

[delovoyhomie]

LGTM!

[howardpen9]

Go og go

[anton-trunov]

@delovoyhomie looks like this has been done already :) green light from the Tact team side

[delovoyhomie]

@Gusarich thank you for the contribution!

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