10 years of the Languages & Framework quadrant

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.

There have been huge changes in the Language and Framework space — here, we look back at some of the most notable blips that have appeared in the quadrant.

Adopt

JavaScript as a first class language | Ruby

Trial

Domain-Specific Languages | Groovy

Assess

Functional languages | Java language end of life | Clojure | F# | HTML 5 | Scala

Trial

SASS, SCSS, and LESS | CoffeeScript

Hold

Logic in stored procedures

Adopt

Care about languages

Trial

AngularJS and Knockout | Jekyll | Require.js | Sinatra | Twitter Bootstrap

Assess

Functional Java | JavaScript as a platform | Lua

Hold

Backbone.js

Adopt

CSS frameworks | Jasmine paired with Node.js

Trial

JavaScript MV* frameworks | Play Framework 2

Assess

Nancy

Hold

Handwritten CSS

Adopt

Java 8

Trial

Go language | Hive | ReactiveX | R as Compute Platform

Assess

Elixir | Python 3 | TypeScript | Rust | Spring Boot

Hold

JSF

Adopt

ECMAScript 6

Trial

Dashing | Django Rest

Assess

React.js | Rust | Swift | Ember.js | React Native

Trial

Dapper | Fetch | Redux | Enzyme

Assess

Cylon.js | GraphQL | Immutable.js | TensorFlow | ECMAScript 2017 | Vue.js | WebRTC

Hold

AngularJS

Trial

Avro | AssertJ | CSS Grid Layout | CSS Modules | Jest

Assess

Angular 2 | DeepLearning.scala | Kotlin | Spring Cloud | ARKit/ARCore | CSS-in-JS | Gobot | PyTorch | single-spa

Trial

Apollo | MockK

Assess

Flutter | Reactor | troposphere | WebAssembly | Apache Beam | Q# | SAFE stack | WebFlux

Trial

Resilience4j | React Hooks

Assess

Arrow | Chaos Toolkit | Karate | Micronaut | react-testing-library | Taiko | SwiftUI

Trial

GraphQL Inspector | Koin

Assess

Deequ | ERNIE | Tailwind CSS | Wire

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ThoughtWorks Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.

There have been huge changes in the Language and Framework space — here, we look back at some of the most notable blips that have appeared in the quadrant.

JavaScript as a first class language | Ruby

Domain-Specific Languages | Groovy

Functional languages | Java language end of life | Clojure | F# | HTML 5 | Scala

SASS, SCSS, and LESS | CoffeeScript

AngularJS and Knockout | Jekyll | Require.js | Sinatra | Twitter Bootstrap

Functional Java | JavaScript as a platform | Lua

CSS frameworks | Jasmine paired with Node.js

JavaScript MV* frameworks | Play Framework 2

Go language | Hive | ReactiveX | R as Compute Platform

Elixir | Python 3 | TypeScript | Rust | Spring Boot

Dashing | Django Rest

React.js | Rust | Swift | Ember.js | React Native

Dapper | Fetch | Redux | Enzyme

Cylon.js | GraphQL | Immutable.js | TensorFlow | ECMAScript 2017 | Vue.js | WebRTC

Avro | AssertJ | CSS Grid Layout | CSS Modules | Jest

Angular 2 | DeepLearning.scala | Kotlin | Spring Cloud | ARKit/ARCore | CSS-in-JS | Gobot | PyTorch | single-spa

Apollo | MockK

Flutter | Reactor | troposphere | WebAssembly | Apache Beam | Q# | SAFE stack | WebFlux

Resilience4j | React Hooks

Arrow | Chaos Toolkit | Karate | Micronaut | react-testing-library | Taiko | SwiftUI

GraphQL Inspector | Koin

Deequ | ERNIE | Tailwind CSS | Wire

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