In apps that create lots of scopes (apps with large tables) the uid generation shows up in the profiler and adds a few milliseconds. Using simple counter doesn't have this overhead. I think the initial fear of overflowing and thus using string alphanum sequence is unjustified because even if an app was to create lots of scopes non-stop, you could create about 28.6 million scopes per seconds for 10 years before you would reach a number that can't be accurately represented in JS BREAKING CHANGE: Scope#$id is now of time number rather than string. Since the id is primarily being used for debugging purposes this change should not affect anyone.
AngularJS 
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding. To help you structure your application better and make it easy to test, AngularJS teaches the browser how to do dependency injection and inversion of control. Oh yeah and it also helps with server-side communication, taming async callbacks with promises and deferreds; and makes client-side navigation and deeplinking with hashbang urls or HTML5 pushState a piece of cake. The best of all: it makes development fun!
- Web site: http://angularjs.org
- Tutorial: http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial
- API Docs: http://docs.angularjs.org/api
- Developer Guide: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide
- Contribution guidelines: http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/contribute
- Dashboard: http://dashboard.angularjs.org
Building AngularJS
Once you have your environment setup just run:
grunt package
Running Tests
To execute all unit tests, use:
grunt test:unit
To execute end-to-end (e2e) tests, use:
grunt package
grunt test:e2e
To learn more about the grunt tasks, run grunt --help and also read our
contribution guidelines.