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That's a completely fair question since large parts of this blog post are focused on major Ember 2.0 features, many of which were strongly inspired by React.

As you know, React describes itself as the V in MVC; in contrast, Ember is a complete front-end stack, including not only a model and service layer, but also a built-in router, integrated command-line tools, and an add-on ecosystem that takes advantage of that common set of assumptions.

It's also safe to say that the React community is still exploring the space of the application layer: multiple flavors of the original Flux architecture, Facebook's recent announcement of a successor (Relay), and different routing libraries that work well with React.

We believe that there are productivity benefits to having the community coalesce around a single stack, but we also believe that it's important to avoid stagnation. That's why Ember 2.0 is both focused on bringing in some of the great ideas that React has pioneered in the view layer, but maintains many other aspects of the 1.0 stack.

We make the changes compatibly on the 1.x branch with a clear transition plan so that we can bring along as many existing users as possible.