[dkhenry]

I am amazed people even see Lift as in the same balpark as Play. When I last used lift It appeared to be a relic of the J2EE stack ported to a new language. This goes beyond any technical capabilities of the framework and down to how it expects you to work in it. Even the author says that just getting started can be a pain, doesn't that tell you something about your framework. It its hard to understand what to do its hard for people in the future to understand what you did. So who cares if you can make pages with just a few "snippets" no one else can figure out what you did.

[wingchen]

Well, we cannot assume that people cannot learn. Snippets are smaller piece of codes compared to controllers, and logically making more sense. All you have to do is to train people. Isn't it the way people learn MVC too?