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But it hasn't really lasted has it?

We've had React 1 (components) and now React 2 (hooks), they just managed the transition better than angular and so gobbled that market share.

jQuery stayed mostly stable, there was only one version that I can remember where it was a bit of a hassle to upgrade it. But it's quite a while ago now, so could be mis-remembering.

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It has lasted as a project. Are you saying that no library should try to improve their performance, internals or API?

There was many versions of jQuery. I remember the days of hacking Drupal to load multiple versions because it shipped with an older version, but we needed a newer one for other dependencies.

Right, exactly. Had Angular.JS slowly implemented what is now just Angular, they wouldn't have displaced so many people so fast.

I think it still would have happened, but it's a shortsighted read into competitive analysis to not understand how this happened.

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