While I understand the frustration, wycats, like any other open source developer gets to pick his battles. Lowering the Rails entry bar is a good thing, making

While I understand the frustration, wycats, like any other open source developer gets to pick his battles. Lowering the Rails entry bar is a good thing, making things simpler is a sign of maturity for a product. To address your bit about concurrency and websockets in Rails, people are working on the issue, see the talks given by Ilya Grigorik for example, concurrency will be coming to Rails at some point. And so will the integration with client-side framworks like Backbone or Ember. It just takes time.