NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications

Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by evo_9 on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:13PM (#7889553)

Reading through this thread it appears most are not familiar with what a joke Telerik is, at least in the .Net community where they sell a lot of control add-ons.

Whenever I've had to work with there stuff I've ripped it out every time and replaced it either with a .net baseline control that was actually easier to work with and extend, or wrote my own. Now if I'm considering a job and I hear they are a heavy Telerik shop I know they are probably either all newbies or simply don't know what they are doing and I don't even interview there.

I'm curious, do these guys actually have a positive rep outside the .net community?

edit: typo.

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by anon4 on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:44PM (#7889699)

I live in the city where their hq is. Here they're colloquially called "the source code mill" or "the source code factory". As in, they take in junior cs students and mill out source code.

A lot of people like working for them because they do take almost anybody and don't have high standards. You could call it the "bullshit job" of CS.

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by tluyben2 on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:39PM (#7889963)

Sounds like a lot of companies :) But yes, the target audience for the components is probably the not very technical CTO (company wide or departmental) who believes that this will save a lot of money because stuff can be bought and not built. It'll end up as a few 100(0) developer licenses on a shelf, next to the 20 enterprise CMS licenses, the unused CRM licenses, the magic bullet never touched BI licenses etc.

Edit: typo

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by recursive on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:21PM (#7889587)

Telerik's controls appear to be optimized for development during presentations and demos.

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by mattnibs on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:20PM (#7889872)

Could not agree more. Telerik is terrible. A part of me dies every time I run across a project that's been 'infected' with Telerik. You have to make sure you have the correct version of Telerik installed or your project just doesn't work and finding the correct version on their website is difficult. The markup for their controls is just horrendous. Documentation and support are just as bad.

Sorry, I didn't read the article. Just looking for an excuse to curse Telerik.

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by kolev on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:44PM (#7889988)

Why bashing a company without even reviewing the project? It's like saying F# is terrible, because it's by Microsoft, and without caring to look into what F# is. Be fair! Even the crappiest company can come out with a decent project!

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by kvb on Friday June 13, 2014 @02:52PM (#7890281)

Look no further than Fiddler for an excellent Telerik product (albeit one that was acquired).

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Re:NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building nati... by pingec on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:24AM (#7903234)

I am using their Kendo UI controls and I like it a lot. I chose them because their Grid control had the most pf the features I was looking.

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