Thanks Derek for the quick and helpful response. I am going to go with Lift.
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Derek Williams <de...@nebvin.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:45 AM, jack <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I really do want to use Lift instead of Rails. Could somebody please >> convince me? :) >> > > I used to struggle with Rails (and to a lesser extent Merb) because it was > difficult to do things that weren't the "Rails Way". Lift does have a > recommended way of doing things as well but I haven't yet run into issues > where I had to fight the framework in order to do things my way. This aspect > along with the performance and ease of use makes it my preferred framework > by far. > > If you are not doing the coding yourself, finding a programmer might be an > issue as experienced Scala developers (not to mention Lift developers) are > probably much harder to find then Ruby and Rails developers. > > As far as existing libraries, being able to use any Java library is a big > plus. It can sometimes be hard to find a good (or maintained) ruby library > in order to use an existing binary (C/C++) library. > > The only thing at the moment that I would like to be better is Text > Editor/IDE support. I don't find this to be too bad of a problem though as I > spent all of my Ruby development struggling with the same things. I ended up > using Vim for ruby development, and have now turned to Emacs for Scala > development. For learning Scala I used Eclipse as it did a good job of > giving me documentation for Classes/Methods. After a couple of months of > coding I only have to reference the scaladocs once in a while as I find the > language to be very natural. But these are issues that you will run into > with Ruby development too, as getting good IDE support for a dynamic > language can be even more difficult. > > I'd recommend Lift for your project, especially considering you want to use > plenty of Ajax/Comet. I never even considered using Comet in a web project > of mine until I started using Lift. The only case where I might recommend > Rails is if you are not a decent coder yourself and you aren't able to find > a good Lift developer to work with. > > Hope this helps > > -- > Derek Williams > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
