A few years later, Magento Inc. released Magento 2, causing a literal revolution in the e-commerce world. The new version supports modern development technologies that facilitate work with the CMS for developers. It also has enhancements in its architecture resulting in high website performance.

Here you can get more details about why and where Magento 1 falls significantly below Magento 2 and how to migrate Magento 1 to Magento 2 safely.