Excellent guide! Dev tool documentation is always kind of scarce/outdated so it's nice to let people know how to find the good stuff.
There are three companies at the heart of developing the protocol today: Lightning Labs, Blockstream, and ACINQ.
You might want to add Rust Lightning to the list. It's becoming a pretty robust implementation from what I hear.
So to reiterate: Just use Polar. It’s a fast and easy way to get started, and who knows?
I will also reiterate. Polar is phenomenally easy to use - especially for a dev tool - but it's a better UX than most end user wallets frankly. The coder, Jamal, is frontend lead at Lightning Labs I believe.
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Thanks! And noted. I'll throw in a reference to Rust Lightning. Wasn't aware of that project.
Neat, saving this for later. Didn't know about Polar.