"Users who have some experience with Javascript coding will see a lot of similarities with Solidity"
Solidity is almost the same as javascript. The difficulty is to understand how ethereum works and how to program as in which language. Solidity wants to be a certain standard for smart contracts
Interesting that they created a custom language for contracts with Solidity. But Solidity will be running on Servers, where as Javascript can run on either servers and/or the client side.
I do wonder if there is a big advantage in Javascript. I mean yeah, there are many coders than can just jump in, but of course a good coder can learn a simple contract language quickly.
That said, I think there are going to be more in the way of app potential, at least early on, with Javascript, as it is nothing new and is a powerful programming language.
I also wonder if having solidity running on the servers might come back and bite Ethereum as they are going to go to a POS system and I wonder if they will lose a bit of hashing power???
i think solidity was a good decission, because so they have also the development of their smart contract language in their own hands. They can perform by that an advantage over their competitors running a standard language. Even now solidity and javascript are making almost the same, in the future they can change that however they want.
Installing Lisk means you need software from at least 5 other companies. Thats not just a security issue. See npm registry backdoors. Ethereums technology is in-house. Therefor you have the value, reflected in the coins growth. Not speaking about Dapps with value of millions and support from tech companies. Eth became a black swan. Lisk seems is a playground for people missed the eth train and hoping now for a miracle. But miracles dont exists. Its like waiting for Litecoin catching up with BTC. Pricedrop from $50 to $1,3. That was a lesson and history repeats. I would not be surpriced Lisk catching up with Crypti market cap. Where are the Dapps?
Yeah, I am sure LISK is a bit for those who missed Ether, but VHS was for those who missed... What was the name of the better tech again? lol. Anything can happen. Just as Ethereum might turn into a black Swann (way too soon to say) so might LISK, etc.
Regarding Dapps, I don't think that is the sell on these technologies. That is the result of companies and people seeing the value in the product. This is totally different than people speculating on Crypto (only). Now, you have companies who are going to be using this tech, but probably not on a large scale anytime soon - so still some speculation. I do think the money that came into ETH was from bigger pockets though.
This space is just waiting to explode. We are still a teeny little Niche. Can you imagine once mainstream (even in small part) gets going?
We have yet to hit our internet bubble, so to speak.
