Agreed. It also reminds me of current ASP.NET where you can manipulate DOM (as long as it's marked with runat=server) as well, only with ASP.NET you also get su

Agreed. It also reminds me of current ASP.NET where you can manipulate DOM (as long as it's marked with runat=server) as well, only with ASP.NET you also get super-powers of .NET runtime. To me it sounds like a bunch of browser/JavaScript dudes are trying to write server-side software, being unaware of how it must be properly written. Seeing SQL surrounded by HTML tags is so late 90s... The real gains, however, will happen when we'll be able to do it exactly backwards: run typical server-side code (blessed with rich runtime) inside of the browser. Browser's DOM (runtime) sucks. This is why there are so many browser-side runtimes being developed right now: Flex/Silerlight/JavaFX. Aptana got it wrong.