Scala wasn't really the problem, lift and play were. Scala is fine, although it did feel like using an ugly crippled haskell at times. Lift and play both pres

Scala wasn't really the problem, lift and play were. Scala is fine, although it did feel like using an ugly crippled haskell at times. Lift and play both presented us with a bad combination of being both immature (which means lots of missing functionality) and opinionated (which means forcing you to do things their half-finished, not really working way). We ended up using snap in haskell which is just as immature, but because it isn't opinionated, it is easy to fill in the missing bits however you please,