A little over a year ago I got roped into using Angular, I was put on a team that had built an Angular app and needed a bunch of features added before it shipped. I learned a lot about it in a short time and came to really dislike the way apps get built with it. It makes it hard to program things "outside" Angular so it ends up consuming everything. Views and scope are a disaster. Dirty-checking was a bad idea that killed the performance of our app. There are just so many damn concepts everywhere! It's overcomplicated and slow.
I'm kinda pissed with Angular too, to be honest. I agree with the author that there were some pretty bad ideas in there, and it grew in popularity so quickly that a lot of people are going to be dealing with those problems for a while. Personally, I left the job I was speaking of earlier in this post, and I don't use all-consuming frameworks like that anymore. Whatever work they save you in the beginning becomes a prison sentence later on when you're forced to do things their way.
I'm kinda pissed with Angular too, to be honest. I agree with the author that there were some pretty bad ideas in there, and it grew in popularity so quickly that a lot of people are going to be dealing with those problems for a while. Personally, I left the job I was speaking of earlier in this post, and I don't use all-consuming frameworks like that anymore. Whatever work they save you in the beginning becomes a prison sentence later on when you're forced to do things their way.