When comparing Xamarin Forms vs NativeScript, the Slant community recommends Xamarin Forms for most people. In the question“What are the best systems to deliver native Android and iOS apps from one code?” Xamarin Forms is ranked 4th while NativeScript is ranked 7th.
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Pros
Pro Many tutorials online to start learning
Pro Supports F#
Xamarin supports F#, giving developers a functional language for building native apps on iOS, Android and Windows.
Pro Free
Microsoft bought Xamarin and made it free.
Pro Cross platform
Pro Svelte Native
Used by Svelte framework for native development.
Pro Leverages knowledge in Angular
Angular is a very popular framework, and teams already developing angular will feel right at home with Nativescript + Angular
Pro Works great with vue.js
Cons
Con Nativescript + Angular apps for Android tend to have long startup times.
It's very difficult to have acceptable startup times with NS+Angular in Android. It's not uncommon to see apps taking 6 sec or more to start AFTER having been optimized with Webpack (mandatory!). The same app in iOS takes only 2-3 sec. Also, this seems to happen only with the NS+Angular flavour. People using plain NS (without Angular) don't seem to have the issue.