Is Angularjs promising?

Question

Angularjs is a very nice and powerful infrastructure, but is this the future?

• Can we be sure that this will be a good choice for web applications in a corporate context for up to 5-10 years? edit: yes, almost no technology will last that long. But people should be trained, and the code should be supported and developed further. If we looked back after 5 years and said: "It was a terrible choice, and we should have known because of xy," that would be bad.
• Being active in Stackoverflow and Google Trends implies that the community is very active and that many people are now interested in technology, but what good arguments convince someone that the structure is not just current advertising? edit: I'm looking for arguments that can convince a few conservative decision makers who, for obvious reasons, don't want to constantly change the technology stack. So far they mainly use JSF.

Arguments (I will add yours):

• Preparing for future standards:
  • "Theyre making the functions available right now, but adding the framework (and, accordingly, applications built using the framework) to the position where the transition to the standard HTML5 solution will be easy when this solution becomes widely available. Now you can use high-speed standard functions HTML5, and it will be easy for you to convert your application to use HTML5 standards later. ( Http://www.dan-menard.com/2012/07/10/things-that-are-awesome-about-angularjs/ )
  • "The way you write and use reusable components in AngularJS looks and feels very much like the way you write and use web components in a couple of years." ( Http://www.dan-menard.com/2012 / 07/10 / things-that-are-awesome-about-angularjs / ). Another link supporting this: http://www.2ality.com/2013/05/web-components-angular-ember.html
• The project is funded and used (Youtube for PS3, DoubleClick) by a large company (Google)
  • DoubleClick Recovery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJoAnVRIVQo

Some proxy links that mostly talk about features:

• http://blog.revolunet.com/blog/2013/06/01/starting-with-angularjs/
• http://stoic.cloud.answerhub.com/questions/1832/why-choose-angularjs.html
• http://stevetaylor.quora.com/Goodbye-JSF-PrimeFaces-Hello-AngularJS-Zurb-Foundation
• http://oscarvillarreal.com/2013/05/07/5-reasons-to-use-angularjs-in-the-corporate-app-world/

Answer 1

Nothing is future proof if one needs to look far enough into the future (with the possible exception of COBOL, which we will never get rid of completely). There was nothing reliable before that. Around 1997, when I first started learning PHP (then called FI), who would have thought it would become a platform for Facebook?

Big players who accept the framework make it resilient to the future. In their enormous mass and volume, they support and promote the structure into sustainable maintenance and function development.

Having a large pool of small players using the framework is what makes large players able to consider an option (or a small player to explode in size). It seems to me that this is where Angular is.

So, you put your career on technology at this level? This is a personal choice.

Some questions that I ask myself when choosing a new technology:

• Will he solve problems for you and make you a superstar in your organization?
• Can you find and / or train people when your successful success requires staff?
• Is your project and / or company currently small enough to fly "compliance standards" under the radar?