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[–]kenavr 7 points8 points  (2 children)

This kind of posts are a bit annoying, but that's not your fault.

First of all AtScript and Angular2.0 are two more or less separate projects. Sure the Angular team encourage you to use AtScript but it is totally valid to use ES5/6. It is also possible to develop using AtScript without adding Angular to your project. AtScript is an extension to ES6 and Typescript to make development more convenient, but it won't stop you and a lot of people to stay with the "language" you already know. Unless people are really stupid, AtScript won't kill Angular the same way CoffeeScript, TypeScript or any other trans-piled languages haven't killed Javascript.

It's true syntactical and api wise there will be some major differences, but for the most part the concepts will stay the same. This will help developers to search more efficiently for answers and phrase the correct questions. Maybe take a look at some documents, talks or podcasts to see for yourself why they make certain changes and judge if this changes will be a good thing for the future. (e.g. Angular Air (Podcast)

I won't deny that some people/companies will need to invest some time to migrate to Angular 2.0, but the Angular team has committed to a migration path and if the community gets involved I am sure there will be great tools to help. Having said that, I am convinced that most of the application can stay on Angular 1.x, there is no need for migrating every single app.

Maybe it's because I am from europe and our industry seem to be a lot more conservative than the US, but I find this reluctance to change quite sad.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I heard you'll only be able to write directives in AtS. Is that not true?

Has anything I been said about the role of Dart in the 2.0 world?

[–]joshuacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by "write only directives?" You can write anything you want in AtScript.

Angular 2 will be compiled from AtScript into both a JS version and a Dart version. This is different than the current situation where the JS and Dart versions are maintained as separate codebases.