when I realized that in the end backbone is just javascript and suffers from the same inheritence problems due to its crappy prototype object model.

And you manually have to deal with event disposal when destroying views in backbone. just google backbone ghost views, I realized maybe it wasn't the best thing for the job after all.

edit: the top comment mentions mixins, good stuff https://github.com/jb55/bquery

but personally i can't wait until we get a proper replacement for javascript, like dart maybe.