Ask HN: What's the deal with Angular 2.0?

[terda12]

As a front end developer, Angular 2.0 is not even on my mind anymore because they just keep delaying the release. I planned to learn it when it is released but chose React instead because learning Angular 1.x seemed kinda stupid considering they are doing an overhaul. At this point I feel like Angular is losing a ton of steam now, while React is gaining momentum with companies like Netflix using it for their frontend. I feel like React introduced a bunch of really great ideas for the web that Angular 2.0 is just playing catch up at this point.

[taraharris]

Angular 2.0 has no chance of displacing React. Everyone (perhaps even Google) knows that Angular is basically dead. Google would do well to admit this much and quit pouring resources into a framework that cannot win.

[mrits → taraharris]

Well that is a bit exaggerated.