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It’s OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2017

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There's good and steady money in "old" frameworks that the kids don't want to learn about.

I work 2 days a week on maintaining AS3 / Flex projects for around $110/hour, fully remote. Which for my client means a more economical choice than to build a new team and knowledgebase and rewrite.

We still use a range of old technologies where I work because it's where our resources are invested. We're steadily rescooling people, but that takes time, and even when every one is up to speed it'll probably still be 6 months before they are able to deliver the same quality at the same speed.

We also have around 350 different (minor to major) systems running, which won't be upgraded in a foreseeable future.

Using old technology is a consequence of reality, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. It's very dangerous to get complacent, and I think especially so, with something so replaceable as Angular 1.

It is replacable, but the cost of doing so is pretty significant in a small start up.

The only real business benefit that other frameworks provide is that they make it easier to hire for. If things continue as they have been in a year or two we will have a bunch of new cool frameworks, and current super stars will become old. So why bother switching yet?

For now Angular 1 is not broken (assuming known limitations are OK for businesss need) so why fix it?

Aside from our own development we also purchase around 10-25 IT systems a year. Some of these come from minor firms, sometime we even buy development directly from student startups where we do a lot of the usecasing and teach them on real world application, and we wouldn't hire someone doing Angular 1.

That's just us of course.

Why would you not hire someone doing Angular 1? Do you think it's THAT different from React or Vue?

It is still supported. What's more new versions are coming. Some people says it will be just like with Python 3 - a lot of people still using python 2.

I use it for all my side projects. I will change when something revolutionizing comes up. Not flavour of the month lile React

Agreed

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