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Would anyone recommend Play! over Lift?

icey 16y ago
I've spent time with both of these frameworks and the answer is "it depends". I'd recommend Play! over Lift if: * You just want a data entry / CRUD style app * You prefer MVC architecture - Play! will feel pretty familiar if you've used Rails * You don't know Scala I'd recommend Lift over Play! if: * You already know Scala * You want to build more "reactive" apps - Lift has excellent AJAX / Comet support built in * You enjoy trying new ways of doing things - Lift has many unique features, there aren't many similar frameworks They're both fast, have excellent communities, decent documentation (I think Play's documentation is better today, but Lift's has been improving fairly rapidly). You can't go wrong with either one. I should add - you can do AJAX & Comet in Play!. You can do MVC in Lift! One framework is just more adept than the other by default in their respective arenas.
- justwrote 16y ago
  continues... Lift: * stateful * no code in the view * there is more than one way to use Lift Play!: * stateless * code in view: similar to erb files in rails pros and cons about code in the view: http://scalate.fusesource.org/code-in-view.html http://scalate.fusesource.org/code-in-view.html My experience: Well lets say on my next project I'll give "code in view" a try :)
robfig 16y ago
I found Lift's documentation terrible. I tried to build something with it about 6 months ago. Every piece of sample code I found used a different combination of classes/frameworks, and it was in the middle of an ORM switch from Mapper to Record (or something). It was a disaster, and I gave it up after a couple days of frustration.
- therockhead 16y ago
  It was terrible, now its just about ok, so its moving in the right direction. Manning Lift in Action book really helps though.
sandGorgon 16y ago
Lift is a stateful framework - so YMMV based on your application requirements. This is deliberate and has some engineering rationales behind it. Play! is stateless. Both have great communities - Lift has a slight edge in mindshare because of Foursquare.

icey 16y ago

I've spent time with both of these frameworks and the answer is "it depends". I'd recommend Play! over Lift if: * You just want a data entry / CRUD style app * You prefer MVC architecture - Play! will feel pretty familiar if you've used Rails * You don't know Scala I'd recommend Lift over Play! if: * You already know Scala * You want to build more "reactive" apps - Lift has excellent AJAX / Comet support built in * You enjoy trying new ways of doing things - Lift has many unique features, there aren't many similar frameworks They're both fast, have excellent communities, decent documentation (I think Play's documentation is better today, but Lift's has been improving fairly rapidly). You can't go wrong with either one. I should add - you can do AJAX & Comet in Play!. You can do MVC in Lift! One framework is just more adept than the other by default in their respective arenas.

justwrote 16y ago
continues... Lift: * stateful * no code in the view * there is more than one way to use Lift Play!: * stateless * code in view: similar to erb files in rails pros and cons about code in the view: http://scalate.fusesource.org/code-in-view.html http://scalate.fusesource.org/code-in-view.html My experience: Well lets say on my next project I'll give "code in view" a try :)

robfig 16y ago

I found Lift's documentation terrible. I tried to build something with it about 6 months ago. Every piece of sample code I found used a different combination of classes/frameworks, and it was in the middle of an ORM switch from Mapper to Record (or something). It was a disaster, and I gave it up after a couple days of frustration.

therockhead 16y ago
It was terrible, now its just about ok, so its moving in the right direction. Manning Lift in Action book really helps though.

sandGorgon 16y ago

Lift is a stateful framework - so YMMV based on your application requirements. This is deliberate and has some engineering rationales behind it. Play! is stateless. Both have great communities - Lift has a slight edge in mindshare because of Foursquare.