I'm stuck on an older version of angular, but have directives become more composable in the last couple of versions? I had real problems composing them as element directives, which is the only way i'd be able to swallow the equivalence argument.
Which is funny because Google is also sponsoring Web Components (via Polymer), so I wouldn't be surprised if Angular is one grand experiment to see if the world will adopt data-bound web components as the next step in the evolution of the web.
Sorry can you elaborate? How have they become more composable? I don't recall a point at least post 1.X where they were more or less useful for composition than they are now.
Sure, there are a lot of subtle things which have been improved in later Angular versions.
First of all, you don't need $scope anymore in controllers, you can still use it for functions like $watch, but you don't need to inject it in just to add properties to your controller, you can just use `this.foo = 'bar';`
You also have the controllerAs syntax which I don't think is present in earlier Angular versions, which provides a shorthand for your controller, and bindToController for directives, which allows you to bind attribute values directly to the directives controller without extra syntax.
If I remember other things I will update this comment.
