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This is a popular opinion particularly if all someone pays attention to is Twitter and Reddit but I'd argue it is a wrong opinion.

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.

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Depends where you live and work I suppose. I used to work in a consultancy firm in Norway that was all in on Angular two-three years ago. Angular has been very popular in enterprise here. But Twitter and Reddit reach enterprise too in the end. The consultancy firm has now switched more or less entirely over to React because Angular is so out of vogue.

US consultant here with a similar story. A lot of what we're doing now seems to be moving toward headless CMS and headless ecommerce with NextJS/Gatsby for the integration point. I'm still a big fan of Angular, but the amount of work we're getting asking for Angular has dropped off a cliff.

I used to work for a big financial analytics company that used Angular 1.5 for everything. Around the time I left, they started migrating to VueJS instead. Obviously this is all anecdotal, and I have no doubt AngularJS is still being used in a lot of places, but I think there's reason to believe its share might be shrinking.

AngularJS is obviously shrinking. It's the 1.x version, and no one should be starting new projects with it. I don't think anyone is referring to AngularJS. When people say Angular, they'd be referring to v2.0+.

I was referring to all versions of the library. If companies are switching away from Angular, Angular's share will be shrinking.

Similar story in the old company I worked for. Though I have experienced that there are a few companies that are happy with Angular and see no reason to switch.

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