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I expected to see Batman and/or Knockout on this type of comparison.

Also, I may be biased because I haven't heard of CanJS, but this article seems suspiciously favorable toward it. Was the article written with a bit of promotion in mind?

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I had the exact same impression. Judging by its github account, he seems like a contributor to the CanJS project, so maybe he's a little biaised. In particular, the "maturity" part where he puts CanJS to the same level as AngularJS, (because CanJS is using some javascriptMVC code) seems a little far fetched.

Why? CanJS' codebase is extracted from JavaScriptMVC which is ~5 years old and used on a lot of big codebases. It did go through a lot of changes but every change was made because of the real-world-need.

source: Bitovi employee / core contributor

I think the article is fine. The author states that he is comparing the frameworks he has USED. Not all MV* frameworks.

About the author favoring CanJS, I think you may be right.

It does seem that the author favors CanJS perhaps, but I thought his comparison was fair overall and he did note areas that CanJS falls short of Ember/Angular. I would suspect that if he were to break down his experence with the various frameworks, you would find CanJS taking up a much larger share than the other frameworks.

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