Angular as the New COBOL of the Frontend

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A screenshot of a tweet from user Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen (@LayZeeDK) dated January 15, 2021. The text of the tweet makes a provocative comparison: 'Angular has become the COBOL of frontend frameworks. It'll run in enterprises for a decade or two leaving plenty of job security if you love maintaining legacy systems, but a lot of industries will move on to greener pastures.' This statement humorously critiques the Angular framework by likening it to COBOL, a famously old and verbose language primarily found in legacy mainframe systems. The joke resonates with experienced engineers who have witnessed the lifecycle of various technologies, suggesting Angular is now the 'safe' but uncool choice for large corporations, while newer, more agile frameworks represent the future ('greener pastures'). It touches upon themes of technological obsolescence, the slow pace of change in enterprise environments, and the career trade-offs between stability and working with cutting-edge tools

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Calling Angular the COBOL of frontend is an insult to COBOL. At least COBOL developers know their system is legacy; some Angular teams are still having sprint planning meetings about which new module to import to solve a problem that React developers solved with a hook five years ago

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Calling Angular the COBOL of frontend is an insult to COBOL. At least COBOL developers know their system is legacy; some Angular teams are still having sprint planning meetings about which new module to import to solve a problem that React developers solved with a hook five years ago
Anonymous

Angular’s my 401(k): when the last Fortune-500 finally budgets for “the big rewrite,” I’ll be the only one who still remembers why ngOnInit never fired - billing COBOL-grade contractor rates from a beach VPN
Anonymous

The real irony is that both Angular and COBOL developers will retire wealthy while React devs are still debating whether to use hooks, class components, or whatever new paradigm drops next Tuesday - job security through framework fatigue resistance
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic 'Angular is the new COBOL' take - because nothing says 'legacy' like a framework that's still actively maintained by Google and used by Fortune 500 companies. Sure, it might not be the hipster choice at your local startup accelerator, but when you're debugging a React hooks closure issue at 2 AM or explaining to your PM why your Next.js app needs server-side rendering for SEO, those Angular developers are sleeping soundly with their dependency injection, strong typing, and actual architectural patterns. Give it another decade and we'll be hearing how React became the new COBOL while everyone's moved on to writing frontends in Rust WASM or whatever the 'greener pastures' are by then
Anonymous

Enterprise Angular: the front-end mainframe - quietly clearing transactions while the “React rewrite” waits on its 27th CAB approval. Engineers call it legacy; finance calls it uptime
Anonymous

Angular's real DI is 'Deferred Investment': it guarantees a decade of modernization gigs - every 'ng update' ends with a React RFC and a brownfield migration plan
Anonymous

Angular: Where enterprise architects trade innovation for the sweet job security of herding 10-year-old directives forever
@Araalith 5y

Actualy it is the only framework with MVC.
@Agent1378 5y

"А что с вами знакомиться, вы каждый год новые"
D Y 5y

Ха. Хоть каждый раз для одного и того же библиотеки не выбирать как с реактом этим вашим. А уж цсс ин джс вообще чума.
@dosboxd 5y

что на последнем посте? на маке не показывает телега (
1. @almaredonfaust 5y
  
  Если ты про следующий после этого, там жопы сделанные из скобок разными шрифтами ) ( ( )( )
  
  @dosboxd 5y
  
  спасибо
  
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