I write and use alot of software. Normally number crunching on servers. However, I recently started seriously learning javascript. I had avoided HTML/javascript for years as they were horrible systems to develop in compared to every other type of software system in existence. However, with HTML 5 + cloud computing platforms I thought these systems are probably mature enough to start using. Anyway, so I learnt javascript and have now built 2 cloud apps. The first was to learn the basic ropes of GAE with JS. The second one is much nearer to to what I would consider complicated (but still one hop from my final target app). I realised plain JS wasn't scaling (regarding software entropy) so I looked at frameworks that could tidy things up. Note I have plenty of experience choosing software APIs to connect different systems together, but next to no experience of JS specifically. Anyway I tried backbone and I was like "is that it? the JS community is blown away by a fricking event model?". It seems trivial to me.
Then I tried AngularJS and I was blown away. "Yes!" I exclaimed "JS/HTML5 has truly come of age". It is a beautiful thing that saves shit tons of time. And as I have got deeper into it, I hardly write JS anymore, YOU CAN DO 95% OF PRESENTATION LOGIC IN THE HTML. You can modularise. You can ... test! Its amazing. IT WILL ENABLE YOU TO STRUCTURE REALLY REALLY BIG PROJECTS!
I hear similar evangelism from the knockoutJS community, so I am keen to try that out too, although I am getting pretty proficient with AngularJS and I personally think its got more chance of survival given its googly backers, and its more likely that chrome will start supporting AngularJS features natively. So I am betting on longevity as well as functionality with NG.
Then I tried AngularJS and I was blown away. "Yes!" I exclaimed "JS/HTML5 has truly come of age". It is a beautiful thing that saves shit tons of time. And as I have got deeper into it, I hardly write JS anymore, YOU CAN DO 95% OF PRESENTATION LOGIC IN THE HTML. You can modularise. You can ... test! Its amazing. IT WILL ENABLE YOU TO STRUCTURE REALLY REALLY BIG PROJECTS! I hear similar evangelism from the knockoutJS community, so I am keen to try that out too, although I am getting pretty proficient with AngularJS and I personally think its got more chance of survival given its googly backers, and its more likely that chrome will start supporting AngularJS features natively. So I am betting on longevity as well as functionality with NG.