I'm not sure I really catch your drift, but: Using {{name}} {{greeting}} in Ember should have the same effect as {{name + greeting}} in your example, r

I'm not sure I really catch your drift, but: Using {{name}} {{greeting}} in Ember should have the same effect as {{name + greeting}} in your example, right? You need not use computed properties in Ember, because updates on ordinary model fields are also updated in templates in real-time (AFAIK works very similar to KVO in Objective-C). Computed properties are just a ridiculously useful concept which allows you to modify/transform stuff before you show it to the user, similar to the view-model in MVVM. How would you show an empty string in Angular with "{{name + greeting}}" if name is empty?