Well I'm planning to use it to build a crowdsourcing website similar to kickstarter. Maybe I could do a post mortem this fall after it launches. Would anyone care to attend? On Apr 18, 2012 7:57 PM, "Levi Pearson" <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, S. Dale Morrey <sdalemor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Ok so has anyone here actually tried Scala & Liftweb? My opinion is that > > its by far the best solution for most of what we've been talking about. > > I have played with it, but not extensively. It definitely has some > cool ideas in it. I really like the template system and the way > server-push stuff is integrated. But it's not anywhere near the sort > of 'easy like PHP' solution the OP was talking about. You've got a > steep learning curve for Scala along with a steep learning curve for > Liftweb, and although Scala and Liftweb have some high-profile users, > it's nowhere near common. And the primary creator of Liftweb even > says Scala is hard for the average programmer, and will not produce > short or long term benefits unless you've got a '95th percentile skill > level' team. > > So, yeah. I'd love to see more people play with Liftweb and some of > the cool Haskell-based web frameworks (Yesod is pretty slick, as are > some of the others), but that would imply significantly more people > learning Scala and Haskell, and that seems unlikely. But if you give > a presentation on Scala & Liftweb, I'll show up. :) > > --Levi > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
