You can already do functional web programming with Scala/Lift. Be prepared for a real mind-bender of a web framework though. For instance, each form field spe

You can already do functional web programming with Scala/Lift. Be prepared for a real mind-bender of a web framework though. For instance, each form field specifies an in-line closure that gets called when the form is submitted. When you define an ajax button that is inserted into a form, clicking on that button invokes a server-side closure that's provided with the definition. There aren't any servlets, json parsing, ajax client library or anything like that in between. It's really quite nice. Just really really different.