2003 or 2013, ASP or Rails both are terrible ideas IHMO. At least as a default. Sure it can be very efficient, but it's a terrible default. When DHH state: >

2003 or 2013, ASP or Rails both are terrible ideas IHMO. At least as a default. Sure it can be very efficient, but it's a terrible default. When DHH state: > except, maybe, compatibility issues with some existing JavaScript packages Some ? Don't you mean most ? Even Twitter Bootstrap will leak memory if used in a turbolink app. When coffeescript is pushed as default, I'm ok, at worst you don't use it and you have a useless gem. But turbolink is harmful if you don't know what you are doing.