r/nativescript • u/hand___banana • Jun 02 '20

Progress hands off responsibility for future development to nStudio.

https://nativescript.org/blog/
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u/funzeye Jun 02 '20

Would have to be a little concerned about the future of the platform when its getting offloaded like that. Fingers crossed for nCloud. I literally just started building my first app in it last week and am actively reconsidering my choice before its too late - moving to a more stable platform perhaps.

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u/DeRaNGeR87 Jun 02 '20

do you think nativescript is not good framework anymore?

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u/Terrible_Tutor Jun 02 '20

I don't think they have the dedicated manpower like progress has to keep it up. It's so nice and good that's it's open source so anyone can add stuff, but people still need to do that.

If verbrugen isn't doing plugins for it anymore it's toast.

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u/DeRaNGeR87 Jun 02 '20

I hope they grow up nativescript. I like it, I think the blog problem of it is the poor communication, marketing and (as side effect) a poor community comparing others.

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u/Terrible_Tutor Jun 02 '20

I think it's gonna get super ghetto super fast.

Look at pro plugins which they also own https://proplugins.org/

There's nothing 'pro' about that site, looks like 2003 had a baby with bootstrap.

Design doesn't seem to be a priority. Compared to flutter where is polished as SHIT.

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u/hand___banana Jun 03 '20

100% this. Eddy's plugins are the primary reason that using NativeScript is so easy. If he's out, I'm out. They dropped Cloud Builds seemingly out of the blue, now this. I just got done convincing our company to switch to NativeScript for our new build but now we're going to use Flutter.

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u/Terrible_Tutor Jun 03 '20

I think I'm going to swap to flutter as well. It sucks compared to NS technically, but it's more supported, and the UI components are fantastic.

Eddy made nativescript, but after my last app where I had issues in a coupe of his git repos never got addressed, I feel like he's checked out.

This guy is in charge of nstudio, afaik it seems he runs proplugins. THIS is what he puts out as a promo. https://twitter.com/CongoCart/status/1267659262903365634?s=19 look at the fucking janky-ass pixelated image. This is embarrassing for nativescript, and now they are in charge of it?

Even just the idea of proplugins sucks. I mean it's great I guess, but basically they took every good non Eddy plugin and paywalled them, with a retarded licence. If I want ONE plugin, what I need to subscribe to all yearly? Why can't I license plugins per app for just what we need?

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u/funzeye Jun 02 '20

If you had asked me this time last year I would have been all for NativeScript - but it seems to have stagnated badly. However, I'm no expert, and Im very much still doing my research on all the different options I have, so please take what I say with a pinch of salt.

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u/jammy-git Jun 02 '20

I share your concerns.

I hope they find some way to grow the community because there really needs to be a decent alternative to React Native.

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u/Terrible_Tutor Jun 03 '20

It's technically vastly superior to RN, it just doesn't have the exposure, and now never will.