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Are there any other platforms that one can learn, that are perhaps not as well known as Eth, but also don't have Eth's problems?

Erlich_Bachman 9y ago
Waves platform, NEM, NEO, many others. Replacing (or at least partially re-capturing a part of) Ethereum's success is one of the next big things that many projects are trying to do. It became clear that some form of smart contracts are considered very valuable by the market, at least ICOs - and it's clear that a platform that will win in this regard will become Huuge. There are also clear disadvantages that Ethereum has, so this is an obvious vacuum that many projects are trying to fill.
- justaguyhere 9y ago
  Thanks for responding. Are you doing projects with any of them? Which would you suggest for a beginner?
  - CryptoPunk 9y ago
    A lot of the commenters here don't understand the cryptocurrency market and are vastly overstating Ethereum's flaws. The truth is that the EVM is perfectly secure and the problems with Solidity are due to the fact that any new smart contract development environment was bound to have problems at the initial stages. Solidity is being rapidly improved and there are several other programming languages under development for the EVM as well. As for market significance, Ethereum is the only smart contract platform that's relevant. There are now over a million MetaMask installations that can interact with any Ethereum Dapp, and millions of MEW wallets that can hold ERC20 tokens. Ethereum-based tokens saw their share of the total token market cap grow from 73% to 92% from July 2017 to January 2018. The platform has 30X more developers working on it than the next most active one. That means that almost all of the decentralized exchanges and other value-adding applications are compatible with the ERC20 standard, creating a positive feedback loop of encouraging new projects to build on Ethereum. Ethereum is more likely than not going to be the platform for smart contract development.
fourstar 9y ago
EOS. https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/116927/eosio https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/116927/eosio

Erlich_Bachman 9y ago

Waves platform, NEM, NEO, many others. Replacing (or at least partially re-capturing a part of) Ethereum's success is one of the next big things that many projects are trying to do. It became clear that some form of smart contracts are considered very valuable by the market, at least ICOs - and it's clear that a platform that will win in this regard will become Huuge. There are also clear disadvantages that Ethereum has, so this is an obvious vacuum that many projects are trying to fill.

justaguyhere 9y ago
Thanks for responding. Are you doing projects with any of them? Which would you suggest for a beginner?
- CryptoPunk 9y ago
  A lot of the commenters here don't understand the cryptocurrency market and are vastly overstating Ethereum's flaws. The truth is that the EVM is perfectly secure and the problems with Solidity are due to the fact that any new smart contract development environment was bound to have problems at the initial stages. Solidity is being rapidly improved and there are several other programming languages under development for the EVM as well. As for market significance, Ethereum is the only smart contract platform that's relevant. There are now over a million MetaMask installations that can interact with any Ethereum Dapp, and millions of MEW wallets that can hold ERC20 tokens. Ethereum-based tokens saw their share of the total token market cap grow from 73% to 92% from July 2017 to January 2018. The platform has 30X more developers working on it than the next most active one. That means that almost all of the decentralized exchanges and other value-adding applications are compatible with the ERC20 standard, creating a positive feedback loop of encouraging new projects to build on Ethereum. Ethereum is more likely than not going to be the platform for smart contract development.

fourstar 9y ago

EOS. https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/116927/eosio https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/116927/eosio