Even if we take it for granted that package downloads are hidden, how should we account for the ~40% drop in new questions in the Angular tag on Stack Overflow since its peak in 2018?
In the Stack Overflow developer survey last year, Angular was 52% loved versus 68% for React and 63% for Vue. Can we find a way to dismiss this as well?
On the freelancing platform Codementor, based on rough sampling, there have been about 338 Angular requests in the past year versus 2098 for React (6x).
Sure, Angular won't die outright because the enterprises that have adopted it will need ongoing support, but this seems like a weak metric for growth. For enterprises selecting a tech stack now, choosing Angular chops the hiring pool by a significant factor. I don't see evidence of advantages Angular offers overcoming that.
On the other hand, React has gained new life through frameworks like Next.js and maintained relevance. React's popularity is not just individual engineers making a disproportionate amount of noise on blogs. React hooks are the most established unit of construction for making components at this point across web, mobile, desktop and command line. That won't last forever, but there are too many signs of Angular trending out and React trending upward to dismiss.
Even if we take it for granted that package downloads are hidden, how should we account for the ~40% drop in new questions in the Angular tag on Stack Overflow since its peak in 2018?
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=angular%2Crea...
In the Stack Overflow developer survey last year, Angular was 52% loved versus 68% for React and 63% for Vue. Can we find a way to dismiss this as well?
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...
On the freelancing platform Codementor, based on rough sampling, there have been about 338 Angular requests in the past year versus 2098 for React (6x).
Sure, Angular won't die outright because the enterprises that have adopted it will need ongoing support, but this seems like a weak metric for growth. For enterprises selecting a tech stack now, choosing Angular chops the hiring pool by a significant factor. I don't see evidence of advantages Angular offers overcoming that.
On the other hand, React has gained new life through frameworks like Next.js and maintained relevance. React's popularity is not just individual engineers making a disproportionate amount of noise on blogs. React hooks are the most established unit of construction for making components at this point across web, mobile, desktop and command line. That won't last forever, but there are too many signs of Angular trending out and React trending upward to dismiss.