> hackernews is not reflective of the real world.

Say it isn’t so! :-D Just as an example: When was the last time you read about Angular on the HN frontpage? Basically last decade. Does that mean nobody uses Angular? Hell no. It is extremly widely used by big-ass corps. It’s just that their devs generally aren’t in the HN crowd.

What companies do, what their support cycles are and how conservative their tech leaders are is an extremely heavy influence on the programming languages, frameworks and libraries they will use. You can research in advance and adapt your expectations.

Can you name some companies that are actively investing in Angular right now besides Google? It feels like React has taken over for many large businesses (non-tech focused) because it's "easier" to hire React devs.

I used to work for a company where our manager (a few steps below CTO) was pushing for us to migrate to React from Vue so they could hire more people to come in and help with feature development. We pushed back and afaik the team is still using Vue today.

I’d say 50% of the devs I know use Angular. .NET shops love it. Fidelity and a lot of other financial businesses use it. I’d put money on heavy usage in the enterprise, though I haven’t been in that world in a long time.

Angular core has 3.5M weekly downloads. Quite a lot fewer than React’s 20M but still significant.

Sorry, I cannot, due to a confidentiality clause. Most of my employer’s clients use Angular though, some exclusively. They’re mostly machine tool builders from Germany.

Also, as someone else already guessed, they also all use .NET. This is not a coincidence of course, even though there is no rational argument to be found (“they both use classes!”).

Or they have invested so much into some JS "framework" (most likely React) that they are heavily biased to get this to work properly. Same thing happened at the previous place I worked at.

We aren't a homogeneous group that all have identical perspectives on things.