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I will post this here as well for posterity. I appreciate the time you took to compare and contrast the frameworks and your article is very thorough. We started with backbone on a few large projects and found angular late. We have switched to using angular where ever possible given the reduced code and testability.

I think another good comparison to make that is missing from both demo application stacks is testing. It becomes increasingly difficult to test backbone with the side effects of having jQuery selectors, html elements and general DOM operations directly in your view models. One of the great advantages of angular is it's attempt to make invert your thinking about dom binding compared to other frameworks. Meaning it tries to keep the DOM and the MVVM separated so there aren't unintended side effects if you add or change html node ids or classes. Backbone more tightly couples you to a specific html model and makes testing your javascript code complex and coupled to also looking for changes to the physical DOM during tests.

In the end, the more complex problems see to cause equal headaches in both frameworks, but at least angular give you less lines of headaches.