Maybe it's because of my background with Backbone.js but Angular really doesn't feel right. Any way I look at it, it feels like HTML and JS is being miished mashed together all over again and I thought we were past this way of doing things.
Neither way (Angular or Backbone) is "right" or "wrong"...just different ways to solve the same problems.
Angular reduces the amount of boilerplate code you need to build nice applications immensely, but to get to that point (and beyond two way binding hello world demos) there's a nearly vertical learning curve.
Once you near the top of that curve though, apps just kind of come together like magic. It's really neat.
IMO, it makes writing javascript-only applications (like all the internal tools for my company) much easier. It bugged me to look at a given view and not know what happened when something was clicked, or what the class name for an element needed to be to get the right behavior. Angular apps feel like writing a desktop app, which is great.
