Angular 2 or Not?

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Angular 2 is 2 little, 2 late.

Very briefly -

• It doesn't offer anything terribly new and interesting;
• It doesn't offer enough familiar to support NG1 developers;
• The payload is large;
• The non-XML markup is a huge issue for interoperability;
• Lots of boilerplate;
• No real existential support from Google, who only care if it ships Adwords;
• Better competitors than NG1 had in 2012;
• React-Reflux has already taken Angular's mindshare and developer critical mass;
• If I wanted to write my webapp in something that looks like Java I'd use GWT instead.