Part 1 — Developers, developers, developers…
As everyone knows since Steve Balmer held his famous speech, developers are a key part for every software ecosystem. Well at least the Chromia Team does — it is obvious that Chromia was built with developers in mind from the very start.
A relational Blockchain is the closest architecture in the Distributed Ledger Space to the traditional database, client & server approach. A professional developer with knowledge of for example C and SQL will be able to start working on RELL — which is very similar — within a day. This is a huge advantage, as the pool of potential developers in this field is a magnitude greater than that of developers that are also blockchain experts and willing to master a new complex programming language with a lot of quirks.
Developer adoption is clearly not an afterthought — Chromia’s Article about the guidelines of their user interface and experience (UI/UX) ‘Building a better blockchain UX’ there is equal weight put on developer UX and End-user UX. Dev grants are a best practice approach to attract developer talent, and Chromia gives these grants too. Although providing developers with a smooth, powerful, performant and open and decentralized tool is the priority.
And last — but certainly not least — are the frequent conferences/presentations targeted at developers, in various cities and countries with great attendance. These may not gather a lot of attention in the crypto-space, and the videos (available on Chromia’s YouTube channel) are probably mostly a boring watch for ‘non-tech’ people. But they are extremely important and necessary groundwork. ‘Build it and they will come’ is not sufficient any more, and without ‘basic’ stuff like this many base-level protocols may not be used much.
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Chromia MeetUp Presentation (available on Youtube)
The willingness to invest so many resources (time, effort, and money) in the area of attracting developers also hints at Chromia having a serious long-term vision. While there is a balance and there is marketing as well, the goals at Chromia are well beyond just marketing to attract more speculative investors and getting on the next larger exchange. For a project with more short-sighted goals (like there are quite a few out there in my opinion) there would be no need for all the efforts targeted towards developers.
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