If I had to sum this up, I would say rill is an isomorphic/universal javascript server. Are there examples of other libraries implementing a similar idea?
There are some other interesting frameworks that have come up while I was developing Rill such as https://github.com/catberry/catberry but I think (like many have said in this thread) that there is a fine balance to be had with isomorphic JavaScript. For example I really dislike meteor because I feel like I have little control. I like Rill because it is a perfectly capable backend framework, a perfectly capable front end framework and it all meshes together pretty well.
There are some other interesting frameworks that have come up while I was developing Rill such as https://github.com/catberry/catberry but I think (like many have said in this thread) that there is a fine balance to be had with isomorphic JavaScript. For example I really dislike meteor because I feel like I have little control. I like Rill because it is a perfectly capable backend framework, a perfectly capable front end framework and it all meshes together pretty well.