Create a hardhat-fe plugin to allow compilation of Fe code

[cburgdorf]

Fe is an emerging smart contract language that is currently in alpha. Since hardhat is becoming the goto solution to develop smart contracts on Ethereum we (the Fe team) would love to see Fe support being added to hardhat.

This should be very similar to the existing hardhat-vyper plugin except that:

• We don't have docker images
• We do have binaries for Linux and Mac which can be downloaded directly from our release page
• Fe files end on the .fe extension

We would love to work with you to get this started.

[cburgdorf]

FYI: I submitted this to the Gitcoin bounty requests

[bookteo]

I will have a look at it.

[cburgdorf]

@bookteo That would be great! I think that you could write the plugin under the assumption that either the fe command is available on the system (leaving it up to the user to put it in the PATH) or use a configuration option where the user can put in a /path/to/fe. The rest shouldn't be too hard, feel free to ping me for any questions that may arise.

[bookteo]

Due to personal reasons I can't continue my work on this project for the moment. I hope someone else find's the time to finish the hardhat-fe plugin.