Blockchain technology stands to revolutionize a wide range of industries, and many companies are eager to move their operations on-chain. According to a survey from consultancy Deloitte, 78% of companies believe there is a compelling use case for blockchain technology within their organization, and 73% of them agree they stand to lose their competitive advantage if they fail to adopt the technology.
Most companies want in, but less than 0.1% of developers are senior enough to deliver on the projects they want to build. Why are blockchains so difficult to code for? To build blockchain apps, you need to have access to nodes (essentially units of the blockchain network). Installing and running nodes is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. It’s a full-time job in and of itself.
Running nodes for one blockchain is difficult enough, but maintaining perfectly functioning nodes for multiple blockchains requires a full dev-ops team. Each blockchain has its own language and set of particularities. Learning to code for one can take quite a bit of time; learning to code proficiently for multiple blockchains is next to impossible. Not only that, but smart contracts – executable programs on the blockchain used to build blockchain apps – are coded using completely different languages than the blockchains themselves.
All this learning to build blockchain apps can take months or years to master, and hiring blockchain developers is extremely expensive, if you can even find them. For this reason, up to 90% of blockchain implementations never even get successfully launched. They run out of time and money, and the majority of them fail.
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Most companies want in, but less than 0.1% of developers are senior enough to deliver on the projects they want to build. Why are blockchains so difficult to code for? To build blockchain apps, you need to have access to nodes (essentially units of the blockchain network). Installing and running nodes is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. It’s a full-time job in and of itself.
Running nodes for one blockchain is difficult enough, but maintaining perfectly functioning nodes for multiple blockchains requires a full dev-ops team. Each blockchain has its own language and set of particularities. Learning to code for one can take quite a bit of time; learning to code proficiently for multiple blockchains is next to impossible. Not only that, but smart contracts – executable programs on the blockchain used to build blockchain apps – are coded using completely different languages than the blockchains themselves.
All this learning to build blockchain apps can take months or years to master, and hiring blockchain developers is extremely expensive, if you can even find them. For this reason, up to 90% of blockchain implementations never even get successfully launched. They run out of time and money, and the majority of them fail.
Continue reading: https://www.coindesk.com/sponsored-content/how-to-build-full-blockchain-apps-with-zero-blockchain-development-experience/
