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by esprehn 505 days ago
These days Hermes is the answer to the JS and iOS startup issues. Of course it's a decade too late for flutter. :P

https://github.com/facebook/hermes

https://x.com/tmikov/status/1869945330638442651

Btw that Angular history is backwards. The first versions of angular were written in JS back in ~2009. jQuery was the most popular way to build web apps, and Angular provided a (very fancy) declarative data binding framework over it. Everything ran in your browser by inspecting DOM attributes.

Later in ~2014 they built a new framework on similar principles in TypeScript, but with an AOT compiler and called it "Angular 2". Then they retconed the original framework "AngularJS" and made the 2+ framework be just "Angular". In that era some Ads folks forked the Angular 2 framework and rewrote it in Dart and the two frameworks evolved separately since.

So there's really 3 separate "angular" frameworks...