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I doubt it. It's not like IE8 is dropped by Angular. If you want to use Angular with IE8, use v1.2.

Too simplistic. Yeah that's a fine solution today. But it's not fine a year from now. This has a big impact on decision-making for any project that actually matters and will therefore be around for a while.

Dropping IE8 support + the "don't worry, it's free" Dart port make me very concerned about committing to Angular for anything I might be maintaining 2 to 5 years from now.

Expecting Angular to support IE8 is highly unrealistic. Angular is innovative and different, IMO. To expect Angular to maintain support for IE8 is to expect Angular to sacrifice speed of development / innovation. Support of IE8 constrains the feature set that is possible in Angular. There's a reason Angular seems to be winning more independent/general developer mindshare than Ember, and this is the reason.

Anecdotally, I've noticed more established/larger tech companies (other than Google) using Ember, and more startups using Angular (with some exceptions like Amazon, which uses Angular). I think this is also a reason.

    If you want to use Angular with IE8, use v1.2

Right, that's the problem.

Of course, you are always welcome to stick with older versions. But given that Angular will not be following SemVer until 2.0, it seems likely that compatibility issues between the point releases will quickly isolate you from the greater Angular community.

Most folk would consider that "dropped", no?

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