+20 million potential NEAR developers

“A student can build an app without needing to learn new languages without needing to learn new skills”, - Ilya Polosukhin, NEAR founder.

The NEAR ecosystem has added a potential 20 million Javascript developers who can write smart contracts and create DApps on the NEAR blockchain. This is all thanks to the JS SDK's recently released JavaScript development kit.

At Korea Blockchain Week, Ilya also commented that such a solution would be able to open up such a narrow niche to a vast audience. 

“Before we had Solidity, so for Ethereum and other Layer 2s, we had Rust, which is mainly what Solana and Near are. And so, Solidity has probably 100,000 developers who are familiar with it, and those who are active are even fewer. There is even less probably in Rust,” Ilya said.

And so, Solidity has probably 100,000 developers who are familiar with it, and those who are active are even fewer. Rust probably has even far more irregular," he added.

“So kind of the idea from Near is to build a very extensible and powerful system that allows developers to build anything from simple to very complex apps.”. In fact, it is a direct opponent to Buterin's brainchild, which has decided to go for simplification and popularisation among developers, not just users.

At the time of writing, the asset's price is $5.44, and it has pumped 42.8% in the last 30 days, according to CoinGecko.