I am trying out Lift. It's not easy, has a lot of new concepts, but I'm
finding it a refreshing experience. It deviates from the MVC pattern that we
are so used to. I chose it for its Comet support, I'm building a real time
application that will use it heavily. I've also integrated Akka (remote
actors), so far this is a simple app but I can already see the possibilities
of the architecture, it seems so advanced and powerful and yet simple and
lean at the same time.

The funny thing is that I would be considered your average corporate senior
developer (I'm not a rock star publishing books or keynoting conferences,
just doing my job with a passion) and 4 months ago I didn't know how to do a
Hello World in Scala. Now I am thinking how to code more and more in this
language and leave Java behind, and having a lot of fun in this transition
process. So to those that say it's a hard language, it certainly can be, but
you can pick the pieces that make sense for you and build from that, at
least that has been my experience.

It's all Dick Wall's fault actually, his passion eventually made me curious
to take a look at it.

Back to Lift, there are a few good online resources (i.e.
http://exploring.liftweb.net/) and I ended up buying Lift In Action which is
almost final and will be released to print soon as far as I know. I'm
finding it OK. I haven't played with Play, but would be curious to hear what
others with more experience have to say about it and how it compares to
Lift.


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Juan Marín Otero
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:03 PM, ryan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to learn Scala..  I am looking for a web framework..
> Should I choose Lift or Play?
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