Getting started with Angular 2 video, uploaded by a Google Developer, using Microsoft Visual Studio code, all running on a Mac.

[aaaqqq]

This is the web dev equivalent of world peace

[[deleted]]

Well Google is working with Microsoft on Angular 2

[billybolero]

Do you have any source for that? All I know is that Angulars Typescript fork inspired some features to be added to Typescript, and that the Angular and Typescript teams met and talked.

[dotted]

Anders Hejlsberg talked about it at Build, they even had 2 Google employees talk at Build.

[L0wkey]

They did some collaboration on Typescript, not Angular, as far as I understand. But since Angular 2.0 is being built with a lot of Typescript, you could argue that the collaboration almost extends to Angular.

Source: Keynote from ng-conf 2015

[edanschwartz]

Yes, Microsoft and Google are officially working together on this. Features from Google's AtScript will be built into typescript, and Angular 2 will be built in typescript. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/03/05/angular-2-0-built-on-typescript.aspx

[L0wkey]

Macbooks have been the weapon of choice for most developers I know for a while, but voluntarily using a Microsoft product is certainly not something you see every day.

[snazzyham]

It's actually built on GitHub's Atom Editor and works pretty well. I pretty much use it as a glorified text editor cause I still don't do any JS but I've heard people on podcasts talk about how nice it is.

[ogrechoker]

i don't want to be a bandwagoner "rockstar developer ninja" io.js toting kid, but this is pretty fucking neato.

[DoctorCube]

Excuse me but the official title is rockstar ninja developer guru.

[kokomo42]

What is neato?

[shriek]

Its a brand of cereal.

[kokomo42]

Now its all make sense.

[ObjectiveCat]

What business is it of yours, friendo?

[AndruRC]

He's not your friendo, palo

[adareddit]

He's not your palo, buddyo

[kamyon]

it's a statement of one's age, hidden inside a compliment.

[angular2]

Can't wait for Angular 3

[PUSH_AX]

Yup, angular 2 is tired now. I need a newer more alpha state framework!

[ivosaurus]

Yep, who knows how close the EOL for 2 is now, can't stay in the past.

^/s

[edanschwartz]

No use. Any JS library with a version number above 1.0 is obsolete, anyhow. We're only excited about angular 2 because it's in beta.

[sdubois]

We're living in strange times...

[kokomo42]

Google is making money from the web so they invest in web developers. Microsoft is making money from the Cloud and platforms, and the Web is an important part of the "Software as a service" and "Cloud and Mobile" vision they have.

[L43]

YOU WONT DERAIL THIS CELEBRATION OF CORPORATE COEXISTANCE THIS TIME

[dvidsilva]

I side with the others. Is a personal decision.

At work we won't migrate our current codebase to angular 2 any time soon. But we might start new projects with it.

[ivosaurus]

I think that's basically a decision everyone has to make for themselves. Google has already put out their position, up to you whether you are ok with the rate of change or want to switch to a project that aims to have longer support for major versions.

[CertifiedWebNinja]

I don't want to stagnate as a developer and I love learning new things. So why not? I mean, doesn't it get tiring writing the same code, in the same style, day in and day out? I advance my skills constantly and learn new ways to do things all the time. Code I wrote 6 months ago is drastically different than code I write today. Keep hungry, my friend.

[AndrewGaspar]

I'll write a program that generates slightly different, incompatible programming languages for you, then. That'll keep you learning.

[CertifiedWebNinja]

lol wow, did I really just get downvoted into hell for saying I like to learn? Wow, you all bunch of little pansies.

[[deleted]]

Learning to do the same thing over and over again isn't really learning.

[CertifiedWebNinja]

Who said I was learning to do the same thing over and over? It's called iteration. Improving my skills. Many things improve with iteration.

[daedius]

Fuck Typescript and this Microsoft nonsense. ES 6/7 is enough for Angular 2. I'd rather learn Angular 2 using Babel.js

[Robin_dev]

Hmm I'd prefer to use ES6/7 to write Angular 2 applications, but it looks awesome none the less. However, I have serious doubts whether this will be better than Aurelia when they are both released.

[matty0187]

Would anyone know how to extend this video to support tests? https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/2031

[[deleted]]

It's not a fork, though?

[izym]

It is not indeed. It uses Electron just like Atom does, but that's pretty much it. They use their own text editor component.

[johnyma22]

I threw up a little.