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Just want to say that all the Angular React comparisons are dumb. It is comparing apples to oranges. Angular is a bigger framework for developing more complex stuff. Therefore of course there is a steeper learning curve. Here are comments like "react is so much more easier because it is just functions". Why not just using vanilla js because you have nothing to learn then? Or just use binary code? It is just 0 and 1.

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I wholeheartedly agree, this is a false equivalency.

Angular was built specifically around avoiding an entirely different problem that the heavily debated issue here of overengineering: Multiple teams that build out complicated and feature laden systems in parallel need to make concessions to allow interoperability.

If your organization is culturally flat, Angular prevents the core of your application from diverging in unmaintainable ways.

The comparisons are valid because for 99% of the web apps out there, the makers could have gone with either angular or react.

Regardless of the underlying philosophies, the choice between React, Vue and Angular is a very real one businesses have to make everyday, so it makes sense to compare them.

I think the problem then is people not respecting YAGNI. The vast majority of web apps should be built using React ant only the true monoliths should be built using Angular.

Also it's worth nothing that React and Vue scale. They work as well for small, scrappy projects as they do for large enterprise ones. I wouldn't say the same for Angular.

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