That Peershares things looks like vaporware that hopes to someday copy what NXT already has. Is it not?
https://github.com/Peershares/Peershares/releasesThe Peershares template has already been released, so there's nothing "vaporware" about it. I know of a couple of implementations that are running, but none that are publicly available on an exchange at this point.
Coincidentally, it was
announced on the same day that NXT was announced, and you'd be hard pressed to really consider them competitors at this point, because they are intended to address different use cases.