[adrianvoica]

...wait! are you guys still using this in 2021 (almost 2022)? :) Jokes aside, I hear less and less people (friends from the dev scene) using Angular these days. Wonder if it's just what happens to stuff (especially, software-related) after it matures... it gets out of sight, does the job, but nobody talks about it anymore.

[madethemcry]

I think that's a pretty good point about maturity. If it's just working people use it without talking much. Similar to Ruby on Rails (RoR) for example, although Angular still changes a lot more than Rails these days.

Another point going into the same direction especially for Angular: It's a very important framework for big enterprises in industries like banking & insurance and probably more I'm not aware of. There are large networks of developers organized in isolated or self-hosted GitHub Enterprise or GitLab instances of enterprises working with Angular, but most of them are not able to talk publicly about it.

I'm sure there are hidden projects based on React, Vue or Svelte too, but I have the feeling the biggest enterprises rely a lot on Angular but don't talk about it, which skews the way people perceive the overall framework landscape.

[fuzzy2]

As always, the standard info: $big_corp is absolutely still using Angular for everything, even for greenfield development. However, their developers often aren’t as outspoken and the software is often for internal use only.

Don’t underestimate the corporate landscape. It’s super conservative.

And then, Angular isn’t really something to get passionate about, in my opinion.

[caporaltito]

Sorry, there are a lot of developers who do not like to recreate on React what Angular already offers from scratch.

[adrianvoica]

:) who said anything about react? react has been aggressively advertised for so long that it's the "default" in devs' minds when talking about JS framweorks/libs. There's lots of other frameworks and tools these days to choose from (if not dictated by corporate policies), the World is a very big place. Anyway, though, I quit developing angular since v6, good to see solid progress.

[doanguyen]

The world is a very big place, so why nobody use angular?

[jaywalk]

A lot of people use Angular.

[ptrwis]

It is best to check the number of job offers for each framework. Angular and React are the most popular, much less for Vue and almost none for Svelte.

[2muchcoffeeman]

It could also be that once a competing platform gets a certain critical mass, it’s easier to learn said platform since everyone knows it know.