20 Million JavaScript Developers Can Build Applications on NEAR

NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin says 20 million JavaScript developers will now be able to write blockchain smart contracts and build apps on the NEAR Protocol, following the launch of the JavaScript Software Development Kit (JS SDK).

JavaScript allows developers to build apps on NEAR

Speaking with Cointelegraph at the Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) on August 9, NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin emphasized that the move will open up the niche field of blockchain development to a substantially broader audience.

“There’s about 20 million JavaScript developers in the world. Probably like every developer one way or another wrote JavaScript in their life. And what we allow you to do is to write smart contracts in JavaScript.”

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

He added

In an August 8 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, NEAR outlined that the JS SDK includes the “contract framework itself, JavaScript and TypeScript contract examples and tests.”

“A student can build an app without needing to learn new languages without needing to learn new skills,”

Illia Polosukhin said

Asked about whether the JS SDK is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine since NEAR is a competitor to Ethereum, Polosukhin said that the offering will run specifically on Near, but can create compatible smart contracts. EVM from the SDK, in the same way that Aurora compatible scale EVMs were created on NEAR.

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