Nope this is not what happened. Play team made the decision months before to start moving to Scala when experimenting the play-scala module of Play1. This is a

Nope this is not what happened. Play team made the decision months before to start moving to Scala when experimenting the play-scala module of Play1. This is a technical decision to build a web framework to the JVM. And even if the core is written in Scala, it doesn't mean you can't use it in Java. Give a try!