yeah, I get the same - I'm probably not going to get something up as fast as I would if I used Rails (though it's probably close - I've built so many sites on t

yeah, I get the same - I'm probably not going to get something up as fast as I would if I used Rails (though it's probably close - I've built so many sites on this stack that I know all the pitfalls and have a lot of the boilerplate down to copypasta now). But this backbone can take a lot of experimenting with features easily, and is fast enough to forgive a lot of sins - I generally just don't have to worry/think about performance at all.