On September 18, 2014, Google pushed the first public commit to the repository that now contains Angular. A few weeks later, at ng-europe, Igor, and Tobias, from the core team, gave a short overview of what were the expected features of the new framework. The vision at that time was far from final; however, one thing was certain: Angular would be an entirely different framework compared to AngularJS.
This announcement brought a lot of questions and controversies. The reasons behind the drastic changes were quite clear: AngularJS was no longer able to take full advantage of the evolved web and the requirements of large-scale JavaScript applications needed to be completely satisfied. A new framework would let Angular developers capitalize on developments in web technology in simpler, more performant, and productive ways. Yet, people were concerned. One of...