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by cableshaft 3447 days ago
While Angular 1 might be 'obselete', there's still a lot of corporations out there with tons of Angular 1 code, and most of them are not going to be upgrading anytime soon. Angular 2 is enough of a paradigm shift that it would require rewriting those apps from scratch, pretty much, and there won't be a business need to do so for another 5+ years for a lot of these companies.

We're still doing new apps in Angular 1 here, because everyone knows it, we can reuse more code, we know most of its quirks and how to squeeze performance out of it, and we can get the apps out the door a lot faster. Eventually we will have a new project where we decide to use something more current, though.

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The point is not that Angular 1 is bad somehow.

The point is that trying to keep up with all bleeding edge technology is a waste of time, because it's constantly being replaced.

While at the same time you need to learn whatever technology you use at work, which may not be the latest-and-greatest.