Re:Ember.js 1.0 RC1 released
by thefreeman on Saturday February 16, 2013 @10:13AM
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I believe they still are. Backbone is a library. Angular and Ember are frameworks based off that library if I understand correctly.
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I'm not sure about Angular, but ember is definitely not based off of backbone (and probably not Angular either)