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Because Angular was the only real choice for awhile. That's like saying PHP is still bigger than you think because half the web runs on PHP but that is old legacy shit. Almost othing new and serious is using it.

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What do you consider "serious"? Plenty of large applications are being built right now in PHP 7.

"Serious" means it was started by a person who regularly blogs or tweets about how to choose a technology.

There was Ember.

Emphasis on the past tense -- "was" :)

What does this actually mean?

Discourse uses Ember. It's pretty successful. http://www.discourse.org/

Ember has bad performance on Android[0]. The Discourse team had to write their own Virtual DOM renderer to work around this[1].

[0] https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-is-ember-3x-5x-slower-on-a...

[1]https://eviltrout.com/2016/02/25/fixing-android-performance....

That was over 2 years ago.

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