For what it's worth, Google's engineering director for Angular has said that Angular 1 was a framework -- "something you could just drop into a web page and get

For what it's worth, Google's engineering director for Angular has said that Angular 1 was a framework -- "something you could just drop into a web page and get going". Angular 2 was supposed to be a "platform of capabilities." "We're still doing the framework, but we're improving our ability to handle different languages. Our plan is to have versions that will work with many server-side technologies, from Java to Python... We would like to work to make Angular future-proof. As we have new releases for Angular, it would be nice if we could give just an upgrade script, so on every release, it would be stress-free." http://thenewstack.io/google-preps-angular-2-final-release/ http://thenewstack.io/google-preps-angular-2-final-release/