I am curious if he ever experience boredom working on Vue.
I am also curious if Patreon based income is sustainable for the long run. What if there's another new sexy JS framework in the future?
That's how a market works. It's a strong incentive to keep Vue sexy.
React and Angular are here to stay, and there's no changing that.
Vue is winning in China
Svelte is very cool though.
Angular is alive and well, and being used/adopted every day for projects no one hears about. It isn't the "sexy" choice, but it is the one a lot of companies make.
And if you're gonna point to opinion polls, and all kinds of respect to those who put them out, but they have a hard time capturing Angular usage due to selection bias.
The twitterati and hobbyist crowd seem to love react, but anecdotally I've yet to see it used seriously at a BigCo, but Ng+TS is everywhere.
I'm wondering if there's a scraper out there crawling Alexa TOP 1xxx pages for use of specific libraries, frameworks? Maybe that would present a more accurate picture about this.
Also it's often misleading since in any company with more than a few employees there seems to be more than one team of developers which often leads to different frameworks being used in different parts of the company. In $dayJob we use Angular in some legacy internal stuff, React in a rewritten consumer-facing project and preact or jQuery in a different consumer-facing project.
It's not that simple to determine marketshare of frameworks I think. We can just present different numbers and draw different conclusions from it, e.g. number of job postings mentioning specific frameworks, number of downloads in a registry, number of domains using it (assuming one app per domain), number of stars on github or number of people claiming to use it in the stackoverflow survey.
Not everything is public facing though, particularly in enterprise
lol. In the US open jobs for Angular and React are about 50/50. (Indeed/SimplyHired), in much of the EU Angular is way more popular than React still.
Is Angular the new Rails in this regard? It's not going anywhere, massive businesses use it at a huge scale and it works.
Whether react/angular/vue are able to continue improving enough to justify staying within that world remains to be seen. It's very early days for some of the new frameworks out there, but with web assembly on the horizon, companies will again be motivated to modernize, however that looks.
I've been paid to write Vue code for at least 4 years.
I'd be unlikely to start any new project on Angular. React remains dominant and would be a viable option, except Vue feels more lightweight and approachable. I'm sticking with Vue for now.
This company focuses on development of Coldbox, a ColdFusion-based framework still in active development. If they can support a team and still continue development, Vue should be good for a while
The Ortus folks are very smart and clever.
Cannot recommend them enough.
I am sure he can save a lot, with that income.
I am sure he could find a normal job, with those skills.
I am sure he could be a freelancer, with "created vue.js" as reference.
His Patreon based income would slowly die with the decline of Vue.js and he'd have enough time to look for something else.
I was curious about this too when Vue 3 overshot its release estimate and then he started working on Vite, which is a build tool.
I think this decentralized web of incentives is more sustainable in the long run than a single corporate sponsor.