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by syastrov 1278 days ago
> That's where things got a bit hairy. Lila is built on Play Framework which is not yet ported to Scala 3.

> So I forked it and butchered it to remove everything we don't need - which is actually most of the framework.

I guess there is hope that Play framework itself will be migrated to Scala 3 and that the dependency on the fork can be removed, but this is taking on a risk - what if there are security updates to the upstream in the mean time?

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I think the plan might be to get rid of the play framework altogether and rather use a couple small, independent libraries to achieve the same.

The likelihood of getting security fixes in the future is about the same as getting new security holes created by whatever updates. Butchering away everything they didn't need certainly didn't harm security.

Isn't light bend more or less falling apart? I thought they announced they would no longer publish changes to play
Play has been donated to the community one year ago, which has been reasonably active lately. They secured some funding and development efforts have picked up a good pace.