[inestyne]

Imagine a world where your given 5 million dollars and a business model; the only real guard rail being 'don't walk us off a cliff...'. It's not fun and games anymore is it?

A huge percentage of the code I write has nothing to do with the front-end. Am I going to hang my project's fate on a platform created solely with quick and cheap front-end development in mind? Probably not.

I do remember the bad old days when all you really had was a thick native client, a database, and scheduled tasks. So there is precedence, i'm just not sure it's good one?

:)

I like Node, I like Meteor, not ready yet, but close. I like the idea of sharing logic, data, and state that way. Not happy about the sideways protocol. Leaves Node available for the crap I don't want to run on the client.

Pretty sure the magical disappearing back-end (OP) idea is a dead end tho.