It's a framework, it tries to do everything, but it does a half-assed job at most of them.
It has its own module system, but it's half-assed.
Its architecture is a mess; not simple, not easy to understand.
So many people adopt it just because it's from Google, and then these people find themselves fighting with the framework and having to ask tons of questions, so you get these statistics that seem to imply "lots of people are talking about Angular", so more people jump on the bandwagon .. and so on.
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It's a framework, it tries to do everything, but it does a half-assed job at most of them.
It has its own module system, but it's half-assed.
Its architecture is a mess; not simple, not easy to understand.
So many people adopt it just because it's from Google, and then these people find themselves fighting with the framework and having to ask tons of questions, so you get these statistics that seem to imply "lots of people are talking about Angular", so more people jump on the bandwagon .. and so on.
Personally I recommend Knockout.js + Require.js + Durandal + rsvp.js (for Promises).