[mjt0229]

Er. If your startup developers can't write more bytes than necessary, why are you publicly doing a shoot-out? You clearly can't afford to explore all reasonable options. You're wasting everyone's time if by cherry picking outdated Scala frameworks to compare to the state-of-the-art Python frameworks.

[zubinmehta]

Firstly, this isn't a shoot-out. I apologize if the title feels that way. It's our account on why we chose one(language) over the other looking into various real-life variables, not just web frameworks.

>> You clearly can't afford to explore all reasonable options. How else would we know which one to go with and save extra bytes?

Lift/Play are surely not outdated. I am just stating objective facts that led us to one over the other.

Read both the articles we have posted to get a flavour :)

[mjt0229]

I was responding to your comment that you had not looked at Play 2.0. I would not argue that it's outdated, I am arguing that if you excluded it from consideration, you missed something.

[zubinmehta]

I agree. We skimmed through and figured it's very new, so didn't explore more.

[justinsteele]

Technically he missed lots of things - there are hundreds of frameworks.

[cover_drive]

The blog post is for startup founders who are making very early-stage decisions on technology, hiring, funding etc. If you are not one of those, it's probably not very useful to you. We did receive appreciatory comments from people. I'm not sure why you say "wasting everyone's time" ...