Ramon Leon sums up a comparison of Rails and Seaside with this:

The price you pay… sessions and a little memory on the server. Yes it’s harder to scale than a session-less approach like Rails, but it will scale, and memory is cheap these days, far cheaper than programmers. Seaside, like Rails, is a very opinionated framework. Seaside’s opinion is that programming is the most expensive part of application development, so let’s optimize development time instead of CPU memory and cycles and throw out the (stateless/templated html) model of web development in favor of simpler web development in one language, where you have all of your tools available and aren’t constantly context switching between several languages.

My title demonstrates my cynicism - there are still people insane enough to think that manual memory management is a good idea; likewise, it will be very hard to convince their web counterparts that there's another way.

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