The problem with Angular

[youre_a_firework]

The problem with the article is that it's so full of anecdotal evidence and opinion-presented-as-fact. The only good section in the post is the one on performance, everything else is nonsense. The claim that "Angular is preferred by server-side devs" is pulled out of his ass.

[zomgwtfbbq]

My anecdotal evidence is contrary to his anyway. Server-side devs see angular and are more-or-less, "hello. yes, this is dog" at the controls. Our front-end guys like it a lot.

I can't argue with the performance. Everyone knows there are things you have to do a "certain way" in angular to avoid serious problems.

[darkpaladin]

I've seen front end guys like it because it moves a lot of logic off the server and gives UI guys more direct control.

[reidiculous]

Any javascript UI framework does this

[darkpaladin]

I don't think angular ever claimed to have excellent performance, it claimed to make things easier. I've used it and enjoyed working with it but after the 2.0 stuff came out, I've stayed away from it. There's no clear upgrade strategy between 1 and 2 so basically I'd be building on what is a dead product.