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Discussion on: Why are developers still using this legacy framework?

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Juan F Gonzalez

I'm gonna start saying that I too hope Angularjs would die a silent death. I worked for a huge client's project where they used that version coupled with an old version of the Zend framework and my god that was awful. Recently I was contacted to be part of a team in which the client specifically requested Angular to be the framework used (though we're still debating the version). One of the primary reasons for it was due to the licensing in which they would be off the hook if they use Angular instead of React.
Now on to the actual answer, I try my best to not get involved in projects with too much legacy tech taking care that I don't end without a job. I do keep updated learning new stuff on the side but not at the end of the day (that time is for my personal endeavors) more like on weekends. I would hope that legacy tech will more and more die out and people will move out altogether but like I tell most of my close friends and family "the client only cares about doing biz not about having the tech up to date"