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A backend for Meteor, fronted in another language doesn't exist. What I'll assume you're looking for is a bridge. Which Meteor.JS provides access to via the Distributed Data Protocol (DDP). There are clients for most languages, from javascript to ruby and etc. However, there are no servers operating the DDP outside of Meteor to the best of my knowledge. The DDP itself is kind of like REST over sockets on steroids.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/livedat...

https://github.com/search?q=meteor+ddp&ref=cmdform

> The DDP itself is kind of like REST over sockets on steroids.

Wait, could you help me grok that? The way I see DDP, it's more like "just" RPC + notifications. Where does the RESTfulness come from?

There is no restfulness inherent in Meteor. You're description of DDP is more accurate.

I worded it as an oversimplification, but it does offer the same service a REST endpoint would offer (CRUD docs), and more via subscriptions. REST in itself is just an RPC, what I'm trying to convey is that it offers the same, plus more over a socket.

Unless the Python Web community get rid of WSGI, this won't happen in any foreseeable future.

You can always build from scratch using Tornado or Gevent or something like http://brubeck.io

Or maybe perl backend examples?