I have and still am involved in pure community coins with no funding and development is excruciatingly slow. Which leads me to believe some form of funding helps progress along and you nor i are getting any younger. So the quicker the better imho.
You must be joking. Look at the commit logs of Monero, Aeon and Sumokoin:
Can you tell which coin is the least active?
Monero which is purely community funded without any scammy premine is making extremely rapid progresses every day non stop. This is simply because no open-source developers (myself included) are interested in Sumokoin which is to them clearly a scam. Granted that Aeon's activity is much smaller than Monero's, but this is reasonable given the current circumstance. Smooth (Aeon's core dev, also part of Monero Core Team) also recommends developers to contribute to Monero for now until the rebase is done. And even then, Aeon's developer base and activity are much bigger than Sumokoin.
By the way, Aeon has a huge development fund of 400k (roughly equivalent to $1M) which were all donated from the community unlike Sumokoin's scam premine.
Can you tell me which one is the youngest ? XMR is a great project with an old community. AEON is quite an old project with no communities and who is not experimenting any new stuff.
Our dev Bill made an EasyMiner for all Cryptonote coins, Sumo is 5 months old and you're comparing a 1M marketcap coin github, newly born, with the one of a billioncrypto like XMR super-old and known worldwide ? You sire, are the biggest dumbass I've seen on this website, you are currently at the same point as people creating wLTC and eXMR in my opinion.
A premine is scammy ? Not when locked in a wallet. This is a good thing that Smooth ask developers to contribute to Monero, Sumokoin devs wish also the same you know. AEON is two years older than Monero so yes, I hope that a 40M marketcpa coin, two years older, has a bigger github than Sumokoin
Why calling a premine scam if they funds are locked, devs have paid for new exchanges and also for a design team. You are just anxious that your AEON shitcoin may be replaced by a coin with a better community, better devs and better ideas. Shill the fuck out and get out, we do not need your FUD and your lies. Premine does not equal to scam you poor buffoon.