Did you know Lisk is built on BitShares 1.0 tech? Not saying that is a terrible thing of course...because it is written in a different language (javascript) that is more likely to have a large number of developers than C++. However, C++ coders are coding at a lower level closer to the machine language and so can be faster and more efficient.
Lisk's tech is ok, but I know little else about them. I will however, say that BitShares 2.0 (based on the Graphene toolkit)...is a completely different story. It is so absolutely amazing its potential and can scale to industrial transaction volumes (as steem has proven).
So is steem also built on bitshares platform? Yea JavaScript is easer for us humans to understand took some classes in Fullsail , but yea machine code C++ is much faster and more efficent, Now you got me researching all this great code, good thing its Saturday and my insomnia is kicking in. By tomorrow morning I will be able to comment more technical comments knowing the fact I researched into it. Damn this is going to be a great end of the year for crypto.