Back in the 90s, when I was in school, education was like a uniform everyone had to wear—the same textbooks, the same blackboard, and the same hurried lessons for all. If you fell behind, your only lifeline was to awkwardly raise your hand in the middle of class or spend hours in the library after school, rifling through reference books.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defines software engineering as “the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is, the application of engineering to software.” The most common systematic approach taken is described as “layered.”

So, Angular 16 dropped in late 2023, and honestly, it feels like a pretty big jump forward for anyone building serious, enterprise-level apps. It’s not like they threw everything out the window – it still has that core Angular reliability and the ability to handle really big projects.