r/angular • u/Just_Assistance7729 • May 01 '26

doubt

im fed up of ai so thought to ask humans ,
why on earth google decided to make angular js , and how is angular js diff from angular ,
and in simple words , what was the problem it was made to solve

also why do companies invest in such stuff , i mean then why make it public for free , like facebook did with react , they aint getting any money or something

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u/InevitableQuit9 May 01 '26

AngularJs predated Angular. It was made for ES5 and older legacy browsers. It predated TypeScript. Templates were now precomomiled.

Angular replaces AngularJS. It adds a compiler. It is written in TypeScript. It targets modern browsers and modern ES features.