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> Do front end technologies actually change that quickly?

> In the sense of major view technologies, probably not... Consider this list of the highest ‘starred’ JavaScript front-end technologies on Github:

  +------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Library          | Stars   | Released       | Age          |
  |------------------------------------------------------------+
  | React            | 96986   | March 2015     | 3 years      |
  | Vue              | 95727   | October 2015   | 2.5 years    |
  | Angular (1)      | 58531   | October 2010   | 7.5 years    |
  | jQuery           | 49061   | August 2006    | 11 years     |
  | Angular (2+)     | 36665   | December 2015  | 2.5 years    |
  | Backbone         | 27194   | October 2010   | 7.5 years    |
  | Polymer          | 19668   | May 2015       | 3 years      |
  | Ember            | 19003   | December 2011  | 6.5 years    |
  | Aurelia          | 10506   | June 2016      | 2 years      |
  | Knockout         | 8894    | July 2010      | 8 years      |
  +------------------------------------------------------------+

> 2.5 years for the youngest isn’t that old in the scheme of things - it’s less than half the support lifespan of your typical desktop OS, for example - but it’s still a ways off our caricature. So what is causing this perception of rapid, even unsustainable change?