I wonder what's the story behind delays of Ivy? Can somebody elaborate? It was first scheduled for v6 (don't remember , then for v7, now there is v8 and it's again rescheduled for v9.
To add to this, the Angular engineers at Google are responsible for updating all however-many-hundred of those internal applications if they make any backwards incompatible changes.
What would be the real reason then? It's not like they are workng on something else. Ivy is pretty much all they are working on for the past 1-2 years. Even to the point where events like Angular Connect are very boring because there is nothing new except this. I'm pretty sure they want to release it ASAP and be done with it.