The relevance (to my mind) is that Angular tries to bring in MVC and other Patterns. And I think any time you attempt to mix PoEAA style Patterns with weak Typ

The relevance (to my mind) is that Angular tries to bring in MVC and other Patterns. And I think any time you attempt to mix PoEAA style Patterns with weak Type systems you're trying to force a square peg into a round hole. IME it's much more successful to focus on the Functional aspects, Declarative binding, and Modularization since with tools like jQuery these things are JavaScript's bag. And Angular is about as far from a Functional style as you can get. So to me at least it feels very much like the wrong tool (JavaScript) for the job (building and using an MVC framework).