Query: "Telerik"

Comments Summary:

Pros:
- Used mainly with Blazor and .NET Core.
- Ease of Integration: "In my case you can integrate easily your custom controller with it."
- Commonly Used: "The answer to your basic question is yes, you can use either the jQuery controls or the ASP.NET Core controls. Virtually any site is going to have some of each."
Cons:
- Learning Curve: "You may have trouble adjusting to the static type system of C#."
- Customization Challenges: "My biggest complaint goes towards customization, like extending components with custom features."
- Resource Intensive: ".NET is nothing like Python or SQL. You'll have to learn how to build a full-on app to support the data visualization, and deploy it on an infrastructure."
- Expensive Licensing: "Do you have a Telerik license? Can be expensive."
Miscellaneous:
- Opinionated: "RAD tools like Telerik are great as long as you never step outside their box."
- Learning Opportunity: "You are getting paid for learning something new."
- Language Transition: "Switching from Python to C# isn’t easy."
- Community Feedback: "Real programmers use butterflies."

Pros:
- Value: "DevExpress brings a lot of value."
- Widely Used: "DevExpress controls are used in so many made-for-enterprise software."
Cons:
- Customization Challenges: "My biggest complaint goes towards customization, like extending components with custom features."
- Heavy & Archaic: "These particular libraries are very heavy, very archaic, and are extremely tied to their happy path."
- Limited Adaptability: "Some people...were just too lazy to do pagination and sorting."

Pros:
- Good Licensing: "Syncfusion's open-source license is really good."
Cons:
- Licensing Challenges: "We were drawn into them for this, but ended up having to pay for some reason."
- Configuration Issues: "Works well when it's set up exactly like their demo...any other configuration can be asking for trouble."
- Bug Fixes: "They are very slack with bug fixes and releasing patches."

Third-Party Libraries: "Is there anything wrong with using third party libraries? No. They have tradeoffs, but sometimes they're the right path."
Development Practices: "There are a lot of self-righteous developers...people generally don't like working with [them]."
Learning Resources: "Check out the domain-driven design blue book by Eric Evans."
Adaptability: "As a vendor of such UI library...focus on your business logic and stop wasting resources."

Learning Curve: "Take the offer, learn the basics of C#...work on some small projects."
Open Communication: "Be open...tell them you lack this particular skill...ask how relevant it is."
Professional Development: "Picking up new technologies and languages is necessary...Learning a new language can’t hurt your career though."
Career Growth: "Learning a new language can't hurt...Well C# is not really hard like that. Just OOP and a bunch of stuff."