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b3ing ◴[19 Oct 24 20:48 UTC] No.41890676[source]▶
Hope it starts to chip into React’s usershare and more companies adopt it, but I know that’s a slow process especially for the big companies.

I got out of front end development for most of the years Angular and React have dominated and it looked like a mess, but Svelte and even Astro make sense, maybe I’m just old school. I would totally go back to the frontend with these new frameworks.

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1. sureIy ◴[20 Oct 24 06:12 UTC] No.41893278[source]▶
If Vue hasn't made a dent, I don't ever expect Svelte to. Angular was the only high-level competitor and I haven't heard that one in a long time already.

For a framework to eat into React's usage, it needs a strong evangelist (like Facebook has been for React)

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2. b3ing ◴[20 Oct 24 08:37 UTC] No.41893926[source]▶
But didn’t Vue come before React? And it’s mostly the same from what I understand, it’s not totally different like Svelte. I think it can change, if more people put it on their resumes and LinkedIn and if those that know React say can do things in 1/3 the time with Svelte and mention that in interviews as well. That is a slow way of evangelism for Svelte that can spread.
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3. Normal_gaussian ◴[20 Oct 24 08:40 UTC] No.41893942[source]▶
I was very amused this summer, hearing a company that I had worked at six years ago is switching from React to Angular. I had thought angular was dead.
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4. orra ◴[20 Oct 24 08:50 UTC] No.41893990[source]▶
Angular is really popular for corporate apps, in companies who use .NET. Possibly because Angular has batteries included.
5. WickyNilliams ◴[20 Oct 24 10:40 UTC] No.41894459[source]▶
No, react came first. And Vue is not the same. Vue 3 added reactivity via refs (which are essentially signals by today's terminology). They can be used outside of components, like Svelte's runes. Svelte 5 is very similar to Vue 3. So much so I jokingly called it "svuelte" when they first announced it.

Vue gets unfairly overlooked imo. I worked with it for 12 months and it was mostly a joy

6. datavirtue ◴[20 Oct 24 14:59 UTC] No.41895760[source]▶
React has already been chosen. The familiar hammer. Face it, there is an entire workforce worth of devs who think web development is React (and now they are moving into management). The same way droves of people think Facebook is the internet.