I think the author is right, if Angular stays how it is today. I've spent a lot of time trying to learn and believe in Angular. I've failed to be persuaded that

I think the author is right, if Angular stays how it is today. I've spent a lot of time trying to learn and believe in Angular. I've failed to be persuaded that it's the end-all, be-all that many people think it is. Nothing I've read--not the docs, nor ng-book--have successfully given me the mental model for what the heck is going on behind the scenes. I think directives are a horrible hacky mess. I recently struggled mightily to design a simple recursive tree directive. Apparently it can't be done without hacking the compile/link plumbing [1]. But my understanding is that Angular is actually going to vastly simplify and modularize in version 2 [2]. I've read that Web Components will be replacing directives [3]. Notably Google is also sponsoring Polymer, which is based on Web Components. Object.observe is going to vastly simplify the scope situation. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14430655/recursion-in-angular-directives http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14430655/recursion-in-ang... [2] http://blog.angularjs.org/2014/03/angular-20.html http://blog.angularjs.org/2014/03/angular-20.html [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089075/what-is-the-difference-between-polymer-elements-and-angularjs-directives/18092637#18092637 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089075/what-is-the-diff...