In this error message:

Error: There was a timeout while attempting to connect to the network.
       Check to see that your provider is valid.
       If you have a slow internet connection, try configuring a longer timeout in your Truffle config. Use the networks[networ

We avoid using cgo anywhere in the codebase since it causes problems with cross compilation. However, cgo would be advantageous in some cases (e.g. can use certain optimized libraries, can use libsecp256k1 bindings)

Investigate the viability of using xgo to do this. Test it on linux/osx/windows.

• https://github.com/karalabe/xgo
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Cross-compili

BuidlerError and BuidlerPluginError instances aren't print nicely in node's console. We should provide custom inspect methods to change this.

I need to be able to specify a block as the defaultBlock value when calling a contract.

Screenshot of what im referring to:
https://enj.in/i/ed3z9j2a

I dont think this is possible right now, but if it is, please enlighten me.

Thanks