I like ember well enough, but sweet jesus it's huge. We have a page weight budget; 350k of ember plus 100k of jquery plus 50k of handlebars leaves about -150k for all the ad/analytics code the rest of the business needs. It's just not going to happen.
That's a serious advantage for angular - it's pretty small for what you get out of the box, and there are no external dependencies.
I saw in the Ember 2 RFC that they hope to slim down a little, which would be good (especially now that Angular is going mad), but for those of us who don't want to send a great hulking wodge of stuff to every P.O.S. phone that so much as glances at our apps, it's going to have to get a lot smaller.
That's a serious advantage for angular - it's pretty small for what you get out of the box, and there are no external dependencies.
I saw in the Ember 2 RFC that they hope to slim down a little, which would be good (especially now that Angular is going mad), but for those of us who don't want to send a great hulking wodge of stuff to every P.O.S. phone that so much as glances at our apps, it's going to have to get a lot smaller.