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NativeScript is pretty neat, for sure. I'm guessing the reason it does not get nearly as much exposure on HN is because it's quite a bit less mature with a com
by t1amat 10y ago
NativeScript is pretty neat, for sure. I'm guessing the reason it does not get nearly as much exposure on HN is because it's quite a bit less mature with a community at best an order of magnitude smaller than React Native. Or it could be that everyone here is working at Facebook...
For those interested, NativeScript is Telerik's answer to React Native and tends to leverage Angular JS as the front end framework. One of the fundamental differences between the two are in how they give you access to device/platform functionality. React Native forces you to drop down to native code when you need access to device or platform functionality not exposed through their framework API. Conversely, NativeScript attempts to expose the device and platform APIs to your JS code. This difference has a very real convenience/performance trade-off.
- t1amat 10y agoI should mention that developer ergonomics is another key differentiator. NativeScript exists for Telerik's bottom line. For example, instead of providing a nice HMR facility, they invested thousands of hours into building a pay-for cloud offering (AppBuilder LiveSync). They are a company and I don't fault them for monetizing a significant investment they made in this platform, but when looking at the available options this is a negative.
- Gys 10y agoI had exactly the same thought: Telerik is a tool company so must make money from nativescript (no problem with that) while Facebook can affort to make RN into something really good without it ever hurting its bottomline. For them its an investment to attract new devs.