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See, Google should learn from Facebook: total API compatibility with the previous version.

They saw what happened with Angular and Angular 2—which Google named the same despite it being a totally different framework—and made a smart move.



That's a luxury you only get when your API is good. With Angular, the problem was the API.


Angular 1.x was never meant to be an MVC initially. It was mainly for templating then they started adding stuff to it (services, directives, digest cycle, dependency injection...) leading to API bloat

By the time Angular 2 was released, Ember, Vue and React have devoured the market


Unfortunately that is also the case with Angular v2. The API surface is enormous.


what does that have to do with whether or not to completely change the name of the re-write?


Facebook's motto is "move fast and break stuff." I'm glad they didn't follow this when making React Fiber. I suspect they learned from Angular 2's failure.




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