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But what is Angular doing with that 200k (which is minified)? It doesn't seem like I should need to pull in the whole of Angular to make a component with a template.

Granted, React is pretty big too, but other frameworks, like Riot.js, have shown that they can be much smaller. Then there's Polymer which gets smaller as web components roll out.

In the competition again native apps, web apps have to load really, really fast. Their ability to run without installation is an advantage that needs to be maximized, an on potentially slow and high-latency mobile networks.

One thing that interests me about Angular 2 a bit more than React is the web components support.

With web components finally going native (surprisingly, led by Safari!), will Angular 2 see any big speedups, and will the size of the hello world app come down (200k is kind of huge)?

Also, I've seen a few tutorials on using Angular 2 with Polymer, but it seems complex. Is Google working on making these work together better? Will I be able to create Angular 2 web components and use them with Polymer web components?

Cadwolf looks like the kid of platform that's dearly needed to ensure the integrity of modern science, but I really, really want such a thing to be open source.

200k un-minified is huge!

I want to like Rust, and in the abstract I do, but every time I dive in the concepts have too much complexity for me to get going, and this post reinforces that.

It's not that I couldn't eventually grok Rust, it's that I don't have time to given that it's not part of my day job. I really hope that Rust leads to some of the same features being expressed in a more intuitive way by a subsequent language.