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Angular 19 sounds ... complicated?

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Some of the features described in the video below sound pretty interesting but they also sounds super-complicated, with deferred-loading, hydration, signals, and event/replay all combined with decisions about whether something loads on the client or the server or whether it's initially built on the server but then enhanced on the client and then run independently from the server, ... I understand that a lot of this technology is for optimizing large web sites, but It's honestly questionable who can actually take advantage of it. That's always been the problem with trying to massively optimize your web applications as if you were Google. It's nice that this stuff is available; it's unfortunate that so much of it has to be opt-in because the cognitive load required to use it well is very, very high. It's the same experience I've had in React. When teaching it, you get into the weeds on performance and <c>useMemo()</c> and <c>useCallback</c> and profiling very quickly, which makes it...not really a beginners library. Take a look at the video, though. Maybe something piques your interest. Be warned, though, the presentation style is...interesting, to say the least. It's got a "definitely not robots" vibe to it. More below the video. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvkX2_46gUY" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/JvkX2_46gUY" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="" caption="Angular v19 Developer Event"> Man, I thought some of the recent MS .NET videos seemed less-than-professional but those were downright <i>charming</i> compared to whatever this thing from Google is. All of the people featured in this video are so stiff, so obviously touched-up and coifed, that it's throwing me off. <ul>The guys are hold their arms on-camera so that you can see that they go to the gym. Everyone does that super-annoying "I've taken an oration course and have learned to artificially move my hands to emphasize my points." that people who are definitely not robots do. The one (only?) lady's diction reveals to me that she definitely filmed her segment a dozen times. </ul> The "jokes" fall so flat that I can't even imagine which audience would think this is funny.This video feels like it belongs in a high school. Every line is scripted. There's no spontaneity and it's not good. I'm used to presenters who act much more naturally than this; even people like Kevin Powell and Nick Chapsas are still obviously performing, it doesn't feel like a "don't do drugs" PSA put on by parents.