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When I used Angular 1, the two way binding was a breathe of fresh air. It was akin to when jQuery first hit the scene and you all of a sudden had selectors. There was a learning curve regarding the "Angular way" (think: $scope, controller, directive), but altogether I was happy with the result and the ideology.

I tried Angular 2 and it was a mess. It feels as though the ideology is fighting you every step of the way, but with no foreseeable benefit beyond the benefits of Angular 1. Angular 1 had some issues of course (mostly with scope) but it gave us a way of working around them (via, $rootScope, etc), but Angular 2 seems to have taken away (again, think $rootScope).

Around the time Ancular 3 came out (yes, a renaming of Angular 2), I moved over to vuejs and haven't looked back yet.

> When I used Angular 1, the two way binding was a breath of fresh air.

Yeah, to be honest, if you aren't suffering performance issues as a result of it, Angular 1 is very productive. Problems present themselves in applications with large views, or using esoteric low-performing features. Angular >2 should never have been called Angular. Even if they call it "Angular" instead of "AngularJS", everyone called AngularJS Angular to begin with. It's so utterly different that it doesn't even fit in the same places.

Two-way binding is amazing for smaller sites, but it becomes a nightmare for an enterprise-level app. Digests, and having to wait for the next event cycle is an incredible headache, especially when you have to write tests and modify values outside of angular control.

Add to that the frequent execution and performance issues with watches and we deeply regret having to deal with it now.

Add to that having to learn the painful guts around digest-related executions. Watches fire on init so you have to ignore those first calls. Tests are nasty because timeouts have to be flushed manually, and $q promises won't resolve until you call $apply, etc. It quickly became "WTF is going wrong internally".

Angular 2 is a lot better, but at this stage I think so many former AngularJS/v1 developers went the react/vue route and don't see any reason to return.

Interesting considering Angular 3 was never in existence, they switched to Semver specifically avoiding vs 3 because of the move to an rxjs based router.

There was no Angular 3.

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