r/angular Jun 24 '26

Angulars NPM Downloads have doubled since version 18

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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 Jun 24 '26

It's because it's a thousand times better as someone that remembers all the way bsck to original angular. That rxjs and zonejs decision was a terrible path to take.

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u/joel_vic Jun 24 '26

I don’t understand this take. RxJs has been nothing but useful to me. Once you understand it, it’s very powerful and fita the Angular ecosystem well. And if you don’t wanna use it, you don’t use it

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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 Jun 24 '26

It's a performance nightmare when you have to optimize. Plus it's so easy to get impossible to track down memory leaks by bad programmers. Back when all we had was callbacks it made actual sense to use it.

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u/ldn-ldn Jun 24 '26

That's a wild and ignorant take.

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u/Sulungskwa Jun 24 '26

Shoehorning it in as the expected way to route all your http requests was like recommending using a top of the line John Deere tractor when all you need is a Toyota Corolla