Turbolinks is amazing - for small teams, rapid development scenarios I think it's an underrated (at least outside of Rails) solution. I've been using it with Django lately with great results. Combining it with Prefetch can yield even faster apparent user experience (see https://www.mskog.com/posts/instant-page-loads-with-turbolin...)
Having volunteered at a Coder Dojo and having tried to transition young Scratchers on to various more advanced coding languages like Python and Processing (with little success) I applaud this effort. Also see http://woofjs.com/ for another project with similar goals.