[ralusek]

I went to the Angular 2 docs and was thinking "this is nothing like Angular 1, looks like a completely different framework." Then I read from them "this is nothing like Angular 1, this is a completely different framework."

Should they have gone with a different name? Probably. But my guess is that they kept it for 2 reasons. The first is the name recognition. The second, more important one, is that they're letting us know that development on Angular 1 is winding down and this is the place where their new resources are moving to.

[joshuacc]

That and they also have an officially supported migration path from Angular 1 called ngUpgrade which allows Angular 1 & 2 components to communicate with each other so you don't have to do a big bang rewrite.

[tracker1]

imho they should have bumped to 3 at release to avoid old articles referencing outdated apis as ng2 had a lot of breaking changes along the way..