In what sense do you mean that Angular templates (with the language service) more "text" than other programming languages? Everything definitely has a type, an

In what sense do you mean that Angular templates (with the language service) more "text" than other programming languages? Everything definitely has a type, and I'm not having any issues with syntax highlighting, mousing over things to see what they are, or peek / go to definition. There are a couple hiccups[1], but those are just tooling issues. The template is ultimately compiled to TypeScript, which is type checked as one would expect. In my mind Angular-HTML is the same type of thing as TSX/JSX, except with the problem of being more unique / further removed from the target language, so not benefiting as much from preexisting tooling. It's actually a minor annoyance for me right now that my existing code isn't yet compatible with the strictest compilation setting[2] because it was developed against the older, more lax compiler that littered its emitted TS with `any`s. If you're having trouble with the complex use cases (which I've definitely run into as well), Angular 9 / Ivy will be a welcome upgrade. (And totally agreed re: Zone; it needs to die in a fire.) --- 1: 1) "Find All References" isn't working for me (I'll file a bug report if there isn't one already), and 2) I have to peek definition to see what something's type is; as-is it just says "(property)". 2: https://next.angular.io/guide/template-typecheck#strict-mode https://next.angular.io/guide/template-typecheck#strict-mode