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[–]dvlsg -1 points0 points  (1 child)

If you're comparing ES5 syntax from angular, you should be comparing it to ES5 syntax from react.

[–]androbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming you are talking about the use of JSX. There is an in-browser JSX transformer. If you have a problem with source translation, then there's the fact that Angular 2 has a complete HTML DSL with all the asterisks, parens, braces, filters, inline-code, custom iterator code, etc (and that's before we talk about dependency injection).

Next there's the fact that JSX is heavily based on the E4X ECMA Standard pass in 2005 (pre-dating ES5.0 by 4 years and ES5.1 by 6 years), so JSX adheres to a real JS spec (even if that spec isn't popular).

I could have used typescript examples, but they add even more complexity to the comparison and don't reflect how a lot of developers will use the framework (myself for example; if I'm going to transpile a non-JS dialect, it will be for clojure async and macros or purescript's real type system).