Jack, I started doing Rails in 2004. At the time, there was one Rails book and a few Ruby books. There had been a few RubyConf conferences and SD Forum had the first Ruby & Rails conference in Silicon Valley. Ruby was mid-pack in the second set of the Tiobe index.
By those metrics, Lift and Scala are about 4-5 years behind Ruby and Rails. >From an operational standpoint, Scala and Lift are light-years ahead of where Ruby/Rails was in 2004... in fact, managing moderate to high traffic Scala/Lift sites is much easier than Ruby/Rails/Mongrel is today. Because Lift and Scala can take advantage of every Java library, there is similar richness in the quantity and quality of external libraries. Two year ago, Scala was virtually unknown. At JavaOne this year, Scala and Lift books were 3 of the top 10 best sellers at the JavaOne bookstore. Most Scala and Lift talks were standing room only. As with every new technology, there are adoption risks, but I think Scala "crossed the chasm" this year at JavaOne and is entering the early mainstream phase. Companies including Twitter, LinkedIn, SAP, OfficeDepot, etc. all have Scala in production. I can put you in touch with a dozen high quality Lift/Scala developers... folks who are currently making their living with Java/Ruby/Obj-C, but would rather do Scala and Lift coding. If you've got funding, I can find you good Scala & Lift developers. Thanks, David On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:45 AM, jack <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am doing a startup company that involves both a lot of processing on > the backend (in the code) and a decent amount of comet/ajax in the > frontend.It is very important that the code quickly on the server. I > have seen the light with respect to Scala and Lift looks terrific. My > only concern is how new it is and the availability of resources > (programmers, books etc). > > I really do want to use Lift instead of Rails. Could somebody please > convince me? :) > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
