Perhaps, but I've already gone back to surfing the web in those 10 seconds. And scala provides pretty poor type safety compared to how bad the compile time is.

Perhaps, but I've already gone back to surfing the web in those 10 seconds. And scala provides pretty poor type safety compared to how bad the compile time is. I don't actually use PHP, I was just pointing out how the claim that play's workflow is just as productive is inaccurate.