[shadowfiend]

David doesn't seem to harbor any particular hostility towards Scala. As far as I can tell, he has serious qualms with certain aspects of the way that EPFL and now Typesafe run and have run the Scala community, and have managed the evolution of the language itself, but he loves the language nonetheless. Thus why he has sunk a great deal of time into the Lift community, into keeping it alive, into speaking about it, is currently sinking still more time into the next phases in Lift (Lift 3) and how to push the foundations that Lift 2 laid down even further with that, and why as far as I know it is still his language of choice for many projects, including telegram and Visi.

You state "the server side statefulness of Lift" as a reason it would behoove people to avoid Lift, without bothering to explain why that is a reason to avoid Lift (it isn't--see http://lift.la/blog/lift-state-and-scaling). You state the language "supposes [you] don't know how to program HTML/JS" again without explaining how that is the case (it isn't--I am very good at both, and have never felt as much freedom to use those skills unfettered by server side concerns as I have with Lift; that's anecdotal, but if you make some specific complaints, I'll be glad to address them). And last but not least, you argue that David is hostile towards Scala without providing a single shred of evidence to support your statement.

In the future, it would behoove you to provide evidence for your claims.