[voidlogic]

I think we agree more than we disagree. Maybe we just differ on which approach is our default one. I dislike JS as well and will be switching to Dart on the front end when I feel it is ready.

>though it is possible to have a back-end behind a traditional web framework too.

Sure I think you get a lot of the maintainability pro's this way, but loose on some of the performance ones.

I mostly write systems software (in Go), but when I write webapps I use angular.js (frontend) + Go (backend) + One of many datastores (ex MySQL, Postgre, LevelDB etc)