The thing is, is making a website with those services faster than with code? Even if it is slighly faster, they only work well for the 80%. The last 20% of feat

The thing is, is making a website with those services faster than with code? Even if it is slighly faster, they only work well for the 80%. The last 20% of features are impossible and you're back to code. I'd rather worry about higher and higher level programming tools that make programmers more productive. Hobo comes to mind (http://www.hobocentral.net/ http://www.hobocentral.net/) and Meteor, both making roughly orthogonal aspects of web programming easier and faster.