[lobofta]

God, do you remember that presentation Google gave when they introduced Angular 2.0? I think it was December 2015. It was sooo bad that in my eyes it killed Angular's momentum almost completely. I am surprised that it is still around actually. Can't find it anywhere though. Google must've censored it of the internet :)

[Cthulhu_]

I joined a consultancy a few years ago and Angular is the de facto standard at most enterprises we work for; I'm as surprised as you are.

[skydhash]

Angular has C# and Java vibes, especially with frameworks like Spring. React is on the other side of that spectrum.

[epolanski]

Angular is super used across the industry.

It's more common on consultancy than product companies.

[zeroq]

And that's probably a product of different incentives.

Consultancy is getting paid for doing things. Product company is getting paid for getting things done.

[epolanski]

Angular is a very solid library I personally like how it evolved.

I don't enjoy writing it, but I don't mind to maintain it, all apps have a predictable architecture.

Performance wise it's also extremely good, between stream based rendering and deferred rendering you can trivially ship lean and fast code.

It's a great fit for large parts of the industry defaulting to react which is notoriously difficult to tame when performance matters.