I started writing TypeScript in 2015, back when admitting that out loud in certain circles got you looks. It was barely past 1.0, the tooling was rough outside Visual Studio, and half the people I respected thought I’d lost the plot. I tried it on a side project, saw the editor catch a whole class of dumb mistakes before I’d even saved the file, and that was it. I was in.
Every year, someone declares Aurelia dead. Every year, they are wrong. It is 2026 and Aurelia 2 is not just alive, it is shipping features at a pace that would make frameworks with ten times our resources jealous. We have released more updates in the last twelve months than some “stable” frameworks manage in three years. The community is building. The core team is cooking. And the developers who actually use Aurelia instead of just talking about it on social media are shipping production applications while everyone else argues about which state management library to use this week.