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But demand for Angular 1 is still high. Who knows if 2 will be such a great success.

by ExpiredLink 12y ago

ebbv 12y ago
Google's abandoning Angular 1.x, IMHO it's foolish to try to hang on to it.
- MollyR 12y ago
  I agree. My company also felt really burned when hearing Angular 2 is not backwards compatible. Probably going to be looking into React now.
  - s_baby 12y ago
    Why? React isn't a full framework and solves a completely different problem.
    - Uroboric 12y ago
      It's fairly simple to piece together a framework with React. I'm using React, Flux, React-Router and Superagent.
    - andrewrice 12y ago
      Hi s_baby, can you elaborate on some of the problems each is suited for? I've been considering diving into React for a few weeks now.
    - MollyR 12y ago
      A lot of time was spent training people on angular. Angular being so big meant more training. I'm guessing our Tech Leads are more comfortable with React because it isn't a framework. The main issue stemmed from research, development, and training costs from what I understand.
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  - EugeneOZ 12y ago
    Company where I currently work, feels pretty happy about using AngularJS 1.x. We aware of Angular 2 and very glad to see changes (especially Rendering Architecture). We know there will be migration path, but it's not so important - projects, which works good with 1.x, will remain on 1.x branch, and this branch will be supported long time enough. When Angular 2 will be released, we are going to try it in new apps. We are playing with ng2 in sandboxes like https://github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/ng2-play https://github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/ng2-play and changes are not as dramatic as most people thinks. Well, maybe forms and 2-way binding, but everything else just got more modern API mostly.
  - dmak 12y ago
    Yes, it isn't backwards compatible, but you can use AngularJS 2 side by side with Angular 1.X. There were migration paths presented at NG Japan.
brandall10 12y ago
I spent the majority of last year working on an Angular project, and I have 3+ years as a Rails dev. One thing that's surprised me is I get nearly as much attention from recruiters for Angular work as for Rails. I think this is mostly due to the .NET world embracing it, they tend to be enterprisey gigs. Give it a few years, and Angular 1.x is going to be like COBOL in the early 90s. Lotsa code out there to maintain...
- wwweston 12y ago
  And everyone loves enterprise maintenance gigs!
  - ExpiredLink 12y ago
    ... if they pay handsomely.

But demand for Angular 1 is still high. Who knows if 2 will be such a great success.

ebbv 12y ago

Google's abandoning Angular 1.x, IMHO it's foolish to try to hang on to it.

MollyR 12y ago
I agree. My company also felt really burned when hearing Angular 2 is not backwards compatible. Probably going to be looking into React now.
- s_baby 12y ago
  Why? React isn't a full framework and solves a completely different problem.
  - Uroboric 12y ago
    It's fairly simple to piece together a framework with React. I'm using React, Flux, React-Router and Superagent.
  - andrewrice 12y ago
    Hi s_baby, can you elaborate on some of the problems each is suited for? I've been considering diving into React for a few weeks now.
  - MollyR 12y ago
    A lot of time was spent training people on angular. Angular being so big meant more training. I'm guessing our Tech Leads are more comfortable with React because it isn't a framework. The main issue stemmed from research, development, and training costs from what I understand.
- deleted 12y ago
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- EugeneOZ 12y ago
  Company where I currently work, feels pretty happy about using AngularJS 1.x. We aware of Angular 2 and very glad to see changes (especially Rendering Architecture). We know there will be migration path, but it's not so important - projects, which works good with 1.x, will remain on 1.x branch, and this branch will be supported long time enough. When Angular 2 will be released, we are going to try it in new apps. We are playing with ng2 in sandboxes like https://github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/ng2-play https://github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/ng2-play and changes are not as dramatic as most people thinks. Well, maybe forms and 2-way binding, but everything else just got more modern API mostly.
- dmak 12y ago
  Yes, it isn't backwards compatible, but you can use AngularJS 2 side by side with Angular 1.X. There were migration paths presented at NG Japan.

brandall10 12y ago

I spent the majority of last year working on an Angular project, and I have 3+ years as a Rails dev. One thing that's surprised me is I get nearly as much attention from recruiters for Angular work as for Rails. I think this is mostly due to the .NET world embracing it, they tend to be enterprisey gigs. Give it a few years, and Angular 1.x is going to be like COBOL in the early 90s. Lotsa code out there to maintain...

wwweston 12y ago
And everyone loves enterprise maintenance gigs!
- ExpiredLink 12y ago
  ... if they pay handsomely.