These wrappers are not natively understood by
ts2dart. Removing them will improve Dart2JS
compilation due to fewer megamorphic calls to List
functions.
It also makes Angular code more succinct and
improves type safety in Angular due to better type
inference of the Array component type.
This change exposed several bugs in Angular.
clang-format 1.0.17 substantially improves formatting for fat arrow functions
and array literal detection. It also fixes a number of minor formatting issues.
The async pipe in templates will now delegate to both Observable pipe or Promise pipe,
whichever first says it can support the input. Therefore, it's beneficial to disambiguate
the name of the AsyncPipe/AsyncPipeFactory constructors to reflect that these actually
support only Observables.