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by interactiv 3596 days ago
Huge angular 1.x fan here , still using it. I'm not going to move to 2.x for a few reasons

- it's an entire new framework, the only thing in common in the name

- typescript : if you need typescript to write your framework you'll write your framework API with typescript in mind, making it harder to use with vanilla Javascript. I don't want to use typescript, at all, I'm a big fan of statically typed languages ... on the server. I'm sick of these complex asset pipelines on the client. Node isn't that fast so compilation isn't fast either.

In my book ,the decline of Angular has happened, nothing justifies a complete different framework. They could have back-ported a lot of ideas in 1.x . 2.x suffers from the second system syndrome and I see very little practical enhancements and features worth switching.