I always got that feeling, disappointed to see it's a reality. I've been writing lots of things in plain old JavaScript for the last few years, and it's quite

I always got that feeling, disappointed to see it's a reality. I've been writing lots of things in plain old JavaScript for the last few years, and it's quite pleasant. With a little bit of attention to serialization constraints I manage not to hit any performance issues even for nasty things like lazy loaded tables.