jaxytee

I'm not in a postion to suggest what web framework your team should go with. I think that depends on the development taste and needs of your team. My main purpose was to point out the oversite of the Play Framework in the orignal article. FYI the only interest I have in pushing Play is that of a Scala developer who has tried Play and Lift. I found Play to be more approachable and modern. Especially for developers with MVC framework experience.

I never claimed scala was more mature than Python. I'm referencing the argument OP made. You just created the illusion of me comparing Scala to Python. Read my comments if you don't believe so.

I'm referring to the comparison made by OP.

On that same note, most of the Django ecosystem isn't as mature as Django either. What point are your trying to make?

"Yes, Scala has Lift but it can’t match the maturity of Django. This overrode the benefits of some of the other libraries/tools that Scala/Java have on offer. Python gets ahead again: 2-1."

How does one come to the conclusion that the maturity of an 8 year old web framework, beats out the benefits of the almost 20 year old battle tested Java ecosystem. Not to mention the Scala Ecosystem is included as Icing on the JVM cake. OP also compared Lift to Django. How does OP not mention Play? Although an argument about the better of the two would be based strictly on opinion, from my view Play has more momentum in the race for the premier Scala Web Framework.

My programming II professor would always tell us to step away from the keyboard/monitor, and physically write out a source file x times to help learn a language. There is definitely something to this process that helps language syntax piece itself together in the brain. Probably because it's similar to the process we use to practice writing and reading our human languages.

I'd argue that Play will circumvent this "hipster phase" issue for (at least) these three reasons:

(1) The ubiquity of the Java/JVM ecosystem paired with the interest in a alternative to Java will keep the functional JVM Langauges like Scala/Clojure in high demand.

(2) The Typesafe machine pushing Play (see http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin...).

(3) Scala is your best bet for a Statically Typed Functional JVM language. Also, we use Play 2.0 at the startup I develop for.

I also find that Play is pretty cool to work with. Gone are the days of having to use servlet containers for development.

Even though Ray's futurist predictions can be looney at times, in his book "Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever" he provides a lot of useful/applicable insights into the state of modern medicine. Like how flawed our "pay per medical service" system is, or how heart disease is preventable in almost all instances (but still kills Americans more than anything else), or how most modern humans in the US have diet's and exercise habits (or lack there of) that are extremely detrimental to our bodies and their pre civilization biological programming. Our bodies firmware is indisputably out of date and no one seems to care or acknowledge this fact. I'd rather have Ray and the likes pointing these facts out and imagining a future in which someone uses technology to change them vs criticizing them for not being able to predict the future on a %100 clip. They may introduce the problems to the minds that come along and solve them one day.