I agree with eloisant, if you get a decent machine with an SSD, Play is quite snappy. Recompilations are around 1 second on my MacBook Pro with retina display,

I agree with eloisant, if you get a decent machine with an SSD, Play is quite snappy. Recompilations are around 1 second on my MacBook Pro with retina display, which is a small price to pay for the type safety you get with Scala