[johnteller]

I was interviewed for a job a few days back and I was told that these heavy JavaScript libraries are the future of the web. I'm still confused.

Either my country is just behind or what you read on hackernews is not reflective of the real world.

[fuzzy2]

> hackernews is not reflective of the real world.

Say it isn’t so! :-D Just as an example: When was the last time you read about Angular on the HN frontpage? Basically last decade. Does that mean nobody uses Angular? Hell no. It is extremly widely used by big-ass corps. It’s just that their devs generally aren’t in the HN crowd.

What companies do, what their support cycles are and how conservative their tech leaders are is an extremely heavy influence on the programming languages, frameworks and libraries they will use. You can research in advance and adapt your expectations.

[yurishimo]

Can you name some companies that are actively investing in Angular right now besides Google? It feels like React has taken over for many large businesses (non-tech focused) because it's "easier" to hire React devs.

I used to work for a company where our manager (a few steps below CTO) was pushing for us to migrate to React from Vue so they could hire more people to come in and help with feature development. We pushed back and afaik the team is still using Vue today.

[fredrikholm]

We aren't a homogeneous group that all have identical perspectives on things.

[darkhorse13]

Or they have invested so much into some JS "framework" (most likely React) that they are heavily biased to get this to work properly. Same thing happened at the previous place I worked at.