[ergo14]

Polymer traction is looking good, over 7k people on slack channel, 750 elements on webcomponents.org. And they got first day on google IO this year, youtube main site is being rewritten in it, ING, IBM, GE are using it, so it gets quite a bit of love from enterprise too.

[jondubois]

I feel more comfortable using technologies that have had moderate, steady growth in popularity over many years like Polymer than technologies which experienced sudden, explosive growth like Angular 1 (we know how that turned out).

Early explosive growth means that the technology is hype-driven; adopters haven't given themselves the time to critically and objectively evaluate the solution - It's not so different from economic bubbles. People get excited and buy into it without thinking and then at some point in the future when they realise that it won't live up to their expectations they all start selling at the same time.

[Pigo]

I remember looking at Polymer before I discovered Angular Material, and I really wanted to give it a go. I guess I played it safe by sticking with the thing I already knew, and I liked the Material docs. But I'd still like to try Polymer.

My biggest hangup with trying new platforms is finding a good UI framework to go with it, I like handing off styling to people who know what their doing.