[doublez]

What's not mentioned (it's hard to sell) is, 50%+ of the reason Lift is so fabulous is, you're writing Scala. It's a mighty upgrade in quality of life, from either Ruby, Java or Python.

By corollary, what's being omitted is, the learning curve is steep. Scala isn't super-easy, and Lift dives fairly deep into the more complex stuff - implicits, currying, etc.

Nor is Lift itself all too well documented just yet. Yes, there's two books and a super-helpful community, but the experience is still in a different universe from the lavishly over-documented Spring MVC where you never really have to ask a question.

[DennisP]

Two books on Lift? All I know about is the Apress book, which significantly lowered my opinion of Apress. What's the other?

[icey]

A couple possible matches:

Exploring Lift: http://exploring.liftweb.net/

Lift in Action MEAP: http://www.manning.com/perrett/

[sorenbs]

exploring lift is the free (and more updated) version of the apress book. Lift in action is not completed yet, but already provides a nice starting point to Lift. It has a tutorial like feel to it. http://stable.simply.liftweb.net/ is the founders book, which has been in the workings for a couple of months only.