I have to admit, I'm more than a little discouraged by how invasive 2.0 will be. There is (currently) no upgrade path nor backward compatibility with 1.x. My group (and it's a large one) has a significant investment in building an expertise in 1.x that we can't transfer over at all. In an enterprise setting, we need a little more than a 3-year lifecycle of our apps. Jan Carlo called it correctly - any support or value add for 1.x will dwindle - starting now. Courses will not be updated, plug-ins development/enhancements will have stopped. And this availability will twindle FAR faster than the lifecycle of our 1.x apps are expected to have. IMHO, this brings out the worst aspect of Open Source projects. Sure there are those out there who jump on the band wagon and are anamoured with the next shiny bauble, but for a lot of us who architect multi-year projects, this is a kick in the teeth. How are we to go back to our project sponsors in 2 years because they want enhancements and it will cost 4x effort because it's based on an obsolete platform? Not to be (too) critical, but for a framework that has so revolutionized web development, I feel that the ball has been dropped somewhere by deviating so far from the rosy path that we've all been led. It tells me that they had so little confidence in their initial design (or perhaps they architected themselves into a corner) that they felt they had to throw it away so drastically. Even more disturbing is that a precident has been set if things can change so drastically, so invasively, what's to prevent it from happen again? And not just about Angular. This makes Solution Architects lose sleep at night. Thanks for letting me rant.
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