Forces? Angular is pretty cool, but it's hardly the only neat way of seperating and offloading view detail work. And jQuery is just a (much) nicer-than-native

Forces? Angular is pretty cool, but it's hardly the only neat way of seperating and offloading view detail work. And jQuery is just a (much) nicer-than-native DOM/browser API. It doesn't provide an application architecture or data bound view handling layer because that's not what it's for, and it no more forces an application style than your text editor does. This isn't to say that Angular isn't nice for projects short of Gmail's scale (I would/am considering it for some small scale stuff), it just doesn't make much sense to say jQuery forces people a direction by not providing features that aren't really part of its purpose.