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Progress is no Facebook/Google/Microsoft, but it's good that there's someone actively working on the framework. Shame they haven't tried to market NativeScript as an alternative to React Native.

At least it's better known that other random enterprise cross-platform solutions that seem to exist only on SEO-optimized listicles of cross-platform solutions such as Codename One, RhoMobile, Kony, Framework7, - e.g. https://www.way2smile.ae/blog/cross-platform-mobile-app-deve... (Again, what companies are actually building apps with these things?)

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So Progress actually handed over development to a company called nStudio relatively recently. The proof/PR announcement feels like it's been wiped off the internet but there are traces still[0].

They've been great stewards so far -- improving the codebase and going after long-standing pain points, but it's worth mentioning.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nativescript/comments/gv968e/progre...

Hm, CodenameOne is actually something I was planning on making use of at some point in the future. I’m (solo) working on a Swing app that I want to bring to mobile, so it seemed like a good fit to convert to it or write a branch that used it. Is it actually a dumpster fire to be wary of?

Not that I know of, it just seems like one of those frameworks that exists and there is some online chatter mentioning it but I have no idea who actually uses it. If it turns out to be good you should let people about it!

I'm biased but it's pretty good and actually has a community behind it.

That's interesting to hear- where's the online community for Codename One located? I did find some Udemy courses for it, so there's that.

https://groups.google.com/g/codenameone-discussions https://stackoverflow.com/tags/codenameone and the github project. It isn't huge but it's been going on for nearly a decade with the same people.

Good to know, thanks! I’ll have to check out the links to the community when I get a chance too. Always good to know that a piece of tech you’d planned on using is healthy.

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