[st3fan]

These 'look how these 4 lines of Java translate into 2 lines of Scala' don't really convince me to start using it. It would be a nice to see a more structural example. Like a real world app. Anything available that is open source?

[carterschonwald]

I think the best justification for using scala is that on one hand you have a very nice language which is maintained by some very smart people and has a lot of nice things that are otherwise only available with ocaml,sml, haskell, scheme, or F#, and on the other hand the programs are running on one of the best just in time compilation virtual machines that exist. Thats a very very nice combo.

[note for clarity: by smart, I mean the maintainers/designers are folks with phd's whose careers are dedicated to understanding how to design useful/powerful programming languages]

[timf]

Try these, for starters:

http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

http://github.com/dpp/lift-samples/tree/master ( http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/master )

[st3fan]

Thanks. I'm reading the Kestrel source and it looks very interesting.