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Backbone is more popular, almost double-ly so (6k stars vs 12k stars for backbone on github). What's interesting is angular's is newer, and appears to be accele
by 1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago
Backbone is more popular, almost double-ly so (6k stars vs 12k stars for backbone on github). What's interesting is angular's is newer, and appears to be accelerating in growth. Backbone doesn't come with baked in features like data-binding, which is hugely awesome. Angular is backed by Google who makes Chrome, the two teams communicate. Given these two benefits I think angular will be the long term winner.
- abhishiv 14y agoYeah, but that doesn't explain why even after 2 years - which is almost the same as backbone, it has had such a low adaption. PS: wary of sounding negative - I am just trying to get someone help me convince them next week.
- Guillaume86 14y agoIt's just lack of communication IMO. I'm quite interested in JS frameworks and only learned about angular a few months ago. This framework doesn't get (yet) the attention it deserves but from what I've seen this last months it's improving.
- snprbob86 14y agoIt's just very different than what most GUI tools feel like. In some ways, it's more like a game engine loop than a UI toolkit's message pump. The lack of familiarity slows adoption, despite being, IMHO, vastly superior technology. See my thoughts on why Angular's approach is attractive here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5063986 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5063986
- brian-frichette 14y agoExcellent analogy. I've been using AngularJS for about six months, and I honestly never thought of it that way.