Charles is a smart guy, but in some ways he is too intelligent for his own good. It is evident to me through the choice of prioritizing an environment that stems from academia and the use of Haskell. <br>The environment of Cardano is not conducive at this point to a diverse ecosystem of developers. I spent a good several weeks researching their docs before I decided that learning Haskell was not worth the effort in comparison to writing the smart contracts for my dApp in Solidity and deploying on Ethereum.<br><br>He mentions things like the success of javascript. Part of that success was the extremely low barrier to entry, you don't have to be an academic working on mathematical proofs to get started with JS.<br>Most of use developers are not academics.<br><br>That's not to say that Cardano won't succeed, I think it will. But the philosophy of catering to the intelligentsia first is a hindrance in my opinion.