Your Angular example appears to be an incomplete example, the jQuery one is more complete, so is this a valid comparison? When using jQuery you can still embed

Your Angular example appears to be an incomplete example, the jQuery one is more complete, so is this a valid comparison? When using jQuery you can still embed logic inside templates using something like https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder which is really tiny.