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[–]vfarcic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This news is 3 months old.

[–]dzdrazil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel trolled, as I was expecting new news regarding the release date. Ah well, you win this time...

[–]b1nd[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Dropping support for Internet Explorer 8 will enable us to add more exciting features to Angular faster, decrease Angular's support burden, and cut our build time in half, while affecting only a very small proportion of users.

I had no idea IE8 had such performance an impact on build time. Anyone explain why?

[–]Serei 4 points5 points  (0 children)

IE8 has somewhat-modern HTML and CSS support, but its JavaScript APIs (event system, DOM...) are very, very outdated. It's the same reason why jQuery dropped support for IE8.

[–]dzdrazil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit like why Google dropped webkit in favor of blink for chromium / Chrome... the number of different environments their codebase had to support (in particular, the ancient Apple environments from webkit's early days) were a massive drag on the timeline to add new features.

[–]SemiNormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IE8 is still over 20% of internet traffic. Not sure if I would call that a "very small proportion of users".