I've used Play 2 for freelance work and I use Play 1.4 for my day job, and I vastly prefer Play 1.4. Play 2 is heavily biased towards Scala and static compilati

I've used Play 2 for freelance work and I use Play 1.4 for my day job, and I vastly prefer Play 1.4. Play 2 is heavily biased towards Scala and static compilation (even to the point of requiring "HTML" templates to be compiled), and I don't see a substantial benefit to the Play 2 claim that everything - code, configuration, templates - is typesafe. I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility that I just don't get it, but I think Play 1.4 provides a far better development experience. Further, there's no sign that the developers are going to abandon the "old" Java-centric Play architecture anytime soon, so you won't be starting out on something with a shelf-life measured in weeks if you went that route.