This was the main reason I wrote Agility.js - I too thought Backbone was too verbose (although these days CoffeeScript makes it more succinct, but still not as compact as Agility, as Backbone doesn't have any built-in model-view bindings).
I wanted to keep the same compactness of jQuery's semantics in an MVC framework so that everything from Hello World to complex apps would be more succinct.
I wanted to keep the same compactness of jQuery's semantics in an MVC framework so that everything from Hello World to complex apps would be more succinct.
For the interested:
http://agilityjs.com