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IMHO, it's hard for these client side frameworks to get much steam in Angular's wake.. Though Thorax is much easier to start, I think over time Angular's power will make it the dominant front end framework out there

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I disagree. I'm delighted Angular exists but I think there are many examples in history where the more general, lightweight technology sees more widespread success than the feature-rich, high concept alternative.

That's exactly why we chose Backbone over Angular earlier this year.

An imperfect analogy, but: maybe Angular is like Wave, Backbone like Email...

An analogy to the Python world: Angular is like Django, Backbone is like Flask.

If you pick Backbone, you'll be inventing a lot of patterns yourself and scaling it, but I think that appeals to a lot of people.

A better one, I think: Ember is like Django (full-featured, heavily opinionated, tightly coupled with its preferred tools), Angular is like Pyramid (powerful, but without a lot of established patterns; the Wild West with big guns), and Backbone is like Flask (micro-framework that does what it does very well and lets the user handle the rest).

I'd rather compare Angular to PHP. I keep wanting to look at it, but whenever I do, I never get past recoiling in horror at the examples that tacks attributes onto the HTML tags in a way that most reminds me of the early days of PHP development of mixing HTML and logic

It might be all beautiful when done right for big projects for what I know. But then the examples on the angularjs site are giving the wrong impression.

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