You have software that you write once, then use, then throw away (scripts). For that sort of thing the time to write the software is relevant. For all other so

You have software that you write once, then use, then throw away (scripts). For that sort of thing the time to write the software is relevant. For all other software, which lives for years if not decades, most of the time is spent on maintenance, not on writing the first version. Reducing time in maintenance is much more important than reducing the time to write the first version from scratch. I'm not saying Play is bad, or that a piece of software written in Play is not easier to maintain than software written in other frameworks. I'm just saying that the time to write the first version of a piece of software, which is what this article is about, is mostly irrelevant.