Scala + Play for startup: pros and cons.

6 points by playing_colours 14y ago ↗ HN

Hi, We are going to create a mid size website. There will be 2-3 developers working on it. How good is Scala/Play nowadays, how risky, how fun is it? What are pros and cons to use that stack? We also had a look at RoR but we tend to prefer static typing.

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lmm 14y ago ↗

Scala is wonderful fun. I haven't seen any problems in the first year of using it. I've heard noises about performance problems when you scale up.

Every time I find myself writing not-wicket in a JVM language I wish I was using wicket. Maybe I should have given Play more time, but I just can't give up strongly typed component hierarchies.