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Unless they plan to release this 4-5 years from now isn't it a bit optimistic to release something intended to be used in production for IE11 only? For most real-world applications it's kind of nice to be able to support anything with a browser share over 1-2%, with this requirement it places Angular squarely in the 'startups for the tech crowd'-only world.

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The intention is to use it with Traceur, which is an ES6->JS transpiler that works right now. It's like writing a framework in CoffeeScript or dart2js - users shouldn't care about the implementation language, the ultimate binary is just a blob of JS that works on browsers - except that the source code will eventually run natively in the browser.

Just to clarify, even Traceur has a hard time supporting browsers before IE10. Though I agree that it is not an issue here.

FYI, your last post on the Nvidia post is dead.

There are a lot of intranet applications where you know the browser you target.

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