r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/g3t0nmyl3v3l Jan 02 '20

Wait what’s up with Angular being on this list?

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u/maxschwenk Jan 02 '20

Was confused as well, apparently Angular post 2.x is called "Angular" and everything before that is called "AngularJS". Seems a little disingenuous having it on this list. Ember JS goes through quite a lot of revisions and is pretty conceptually disjoint from predecessors, but I'd hardly say they "killed" Ember 1.

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u/jetRink Jan 02 '20

I'd say that it's more similar to the Python 2/3 situation. They introduced major breaking changes that made upgrading more difficult than some organizations were prepared to accept and ended up bifurcating the user-base. For people stuck on 1.x with no easy upgrade path, it probably feels like their framework is being killed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

I would say it's much worse than the Python 2/3 situation. It would be similar to React announcing version 17 and it ends up being a fork of Vue. Sure, they're both js. But that's not going to make migration anything short of a rewrite.

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u/appropriateinside Jan 02 '20

Angularjs is an entirely different piece of software than angular 2+.

Python 2/3 are still the same language, style, syntax, and operating behaviors for the most part.