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I can't really verify the authors thesis that most people using Angular are backend developers, but it does seem to have become the first thing everybody tries to learn after JS/jQuery. I've been interviewing a lot of entry level candidates lately, and "I've also started playing with Angular" has practically been a theme song.

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Of the people dozen I know who were early adopters of Angular or do AngularJS now, only one wasn't a serious back-end developer.

I think the split may be better worded as programmer/scripter. Some of my unscientific sample were using other Javascript frameworks (Backbone mostly) but were definitely programmers, and wrote in assorted languages too.

The problem is that many back end frameworks tend to hide JavaScript, the likes of JSF and Web.Forms.

So most project managers when moving out for more lean (MVC) frameworks, tend to look for something like AngularJS and since Angular comes from Google, it automatically gets selected.

That is how we started getting Angular on our RFPs.

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