I'm not sure it's fair to say DHH wants to kill JavaScript, only that he wants to use JavaScript only where he thinks there's no better alternative. i.e. progre

I'm not sure it's fair to say DHH wants to kill JavaScript, only that he wants to use JavaScript only where he thinks there's no better alternative. i.e. progressive enhancement. There's still nothing stopping you from jettisoning view support and just using Rails as an API if you want to.