Should we start a new Angular project with AngularDart (considering Angular 2.0)?

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In this document:

http://angularjs.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/angular-20.html

It says:

How does AngularJS 2 relate to AngularDart? When porting AngularJS to the Dart language, we build a new version of Angular using all the learnings we’d acquired to date. Many of the improvements discussed in this document like improved Directive concepts and syntax and class/annotation-based DI are already present there.

While the implementation isn’t what we’ll arrive at for 2, it’s a great preview of what’s to come.

We’ll be upgrading AngularDart as we build AngularJS 2 so folks who prefer the Dart language can enjoy the same benefits as folks on JS. Our goal is that there will be a single framework with your choice of language.

We are starting a new Angular project, given the above, would it be better to use AngularDart?

We have considered React+Flux+... but we like the templating of Angular.

Thanks, Ashley.

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The angular team has stated at the ng-europe conference, videos are at angularjs .org, that if you are starting a project now, to use 1.3. This version will be supported and developed for the forseeable future.

2.0 is still in early days. The APIs are nowhere near finalized. They have taken ideas and concepts from AngularDart, but the implications are vastly different. I would speculate that the team will put more effort into an upgrade path for 1.3 rather than a conversion path for AngularDart.

Just be sure to follow the style guide to help make your code future friendly. https://github.com/johnpapa/angularjs-styleguide/blob/master/README.md

Tl;dr Controllers and services are classes. Use ControllerAs syntax.