Well the most disturbing thing about this syntax is for sure the use of parentheses. Drop them and you will get old good ng-click="doSomething" which doesn't differ at all from class="ng-doSomething" or data-ng-click="doSomething".
But parentheses try to lookalike the onevent attributes, which a) everybody doesn't like and b) immediately invoke javascript code
In AngularJS point b) can't be the truth - there is for sure some layer of expression evaluation, and that is what disturbing - as an experienced javascript developer you know that this layer exists, but you can't easily see what happens inside that layer - AngularJS hides that from you.
In most cases in traditional JS development - nothing really happens in this layer, it's just a dumb method invocation in the context of the view and has dom event as a single argument - this is clearly visible in libs such as Backbone.
But in Angular this layer of expression parsing and evaluation does exist - and you don't know what kind of magic happens there and how thick, maintainable and overridable this layer is. This possibility of dirty magic - that really disturbs me in all the simple tutorials of AngularJS, so I don't have courage yet to give it a try in a serious project.
But parentheses try to lookalike the onevent attributes, which a) everybody doesn't like and b) immediately invoke javascript code
In AngularJS point b) can't be the truth - there is for sure some layer of expression evaluation, and that is what disturbing - as an experienced javascript developer you know that this layer exists, but you can't easily see what happens inside that layer - AngularJS hides that from you.
In most cases in traditional JS development - nothing really happens in this layer, it's just a dumb method invocation in the context of the view and has dom event as a single argument - this is clearly visible in libs such as Backbone.
But in Angular this layer of expression parsing and evaluation does exist - and you don't know what kind of magic happens there and how thick, maintainable and overridable this layer is. This possibility of dirty magic - that really disturbs me in all the simple tutorials of AngularJS, so I don't have courage yet to give it a try in a serious project.