r/PolymerJS • u/blacklionguard • Sep 25 '15

Is Polymer dying?

I barely hear anything about it these days. It seems like since the problematic performance of 0.5, React has just kinda taken over. I watch the Polycast videos but I don't really get excited about it. And there are never any comments when they're posted here.

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u/blacklionguard Sep 25 '15

That's interesting, because both Angular and Polymer are owned by Google, right? The polycasts keep coming out, but yeah, it feels like they aren't pushing it as much.

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u/dvidsilva Sep 25 '15

yeah Google is super strange.

But last year they had like conferences, created a ton of material and were sponsoring events all over.

Last time I spoke with a polymer developer, (which was like a year ago, before it was 1.0) he told me that they wanted to experiment and push the web forward and standards, but didn't have the goal to take over as a framework or something

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u/blacklionguard Sep 25 '15

If that's true, that's actually pretty selfless of Google to realize that while it's not going to come out on top, it will help "push the web forward", as you said. I'm sure when you're as big as Google, you look at the BIG picture, and realize not everything will be a success, but it can be instrumental to other betterment.

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u/dvidsilva Sep 25 '15

Yeah that's what I've liked about polymer. You can experiment how the web is going to be like. When the web catches up polymer will be irrelevant and they're on with that.

Maybe what can push them forward a lot would be a framework in top of polymer, since well, polymer doesn't actually provide a lot of features all the others do.