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I am trying to convince a client to use angular instead of backbone.

They are however thrown off by the fact that there aren't many startups using it in production. And I can't figure a satisfactory answer to that. Any explanations why is that?

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Tell them Google (TM) is using it. That should still carry some weight.

To add some weight to parent comments, there are lots of comments from Googlers using AngularJS here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113530. I recently switched from Backbone to Angular and have no plans on going back. [edit: I'm not a Googler, I just use Angular]

Backbone is more popular, almost double-ly so (6k stars vs 12k stars for backbone on github). What's interesting is angular's is newer, and appears to be accelerating in growth. Backbone doesn't come with baked in features like data-binding, which is hugely awesome. Angular is backed by Google who makes Chrome, the two teams communicate. Given these two benefits I think angular will be the long term winner.

Yeah, but that doesn't explain why even after 2 years - which is almost the same as backbone, it has had such a low adaption.

PS: wary of sounding negative - I am just trying to get someone help me convince them next week.

It's just lack of communication IMO. I'm quite interested in JS frameworks and only learned about angular a few months ago.

This framework doesn't get (yet) the attention it deserves but from what I've seen this last months it's improving.

It's just very different than what most GUI tools feel like. In some ways, it's more like a game engine loop than a UI toolkit's message pump. The lack of familiarity slows adoption, despite being, IMHO, vastly superior technology.

See my thoughts on why Angular's approach is attractive here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5063986

Excellent analogy. I've been using AngularJS for about six months, and I honestly never thought of it that way.

Maybe you can find here one or another point for angular: http://www.nebithi.com/2012/12/27/backbone-and-angular-demys...

Udacity uses this. It's one of the awesome startups these days.

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