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cmiiw, but imho play is too similar with others web framework, like rails. i'd prefer scala community to push lift instead. lift has some great ideas, and has m

• SomeOtherGuy 15y ago
  >lift has some great ideas Such as? We tried really hard to use lift, but it was terrible. It is just an ugly mix of rails and seaside with a lot of un-fullfilled promises being used to market it. Like the type safety they claim is so unique, but which is virtually non-existent and pales in comparison to all the SML, ocaml and haskell frameworks. >i'd prefer scala community to push lift instead The scala community abandoned lift because the lift community is incredibly hostile and constantly attacks both lift users and scala developers. Since lift ostracized themselves long ago, the scala developers have focused on play instead.
• SomeOtherGuy3 15y ago
  >lift has some great ideas Such as? We tried really hard to use lift, but it was terrible. It is just an ugly mix of rails and seaside with a lot of un-fullfilled promises being used to market it. Like the type safety they claim is so unique, but which is virtually non-existent and pales in comparison to all the SML, ocaml and haskell frameworks. >i'd prefer scala community to push lift instead The scala community abandoned lift because the lift community is incredibly hostile and constantly attacks both lift users and scala developers. Since lift ostracized themselves long ago, the scala developers have focused on play instead.