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by peteypao 4049 days ago
What would you recommend instead?
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For a website?

Why scala? Because LinkedIn and Twitter use it?

I have had great experience with Django in the past 8 years. Nice tooling. Nice template engine. Nice ORM. Mature. Scalable. Robust.

The main detractor you'll hear about it is performance. You're just building a website. Even in situations where I'm recompiling LESS (bootstrap), with all debug tools on, and rendering images in the same pageload, it takes 200ms.

Since python is interpreted, you just refresh the page. No 10 minute compiling just because you had a typo.

One thing about django I don't like though is you never get the "snappy" feeling of just loading a page like lightning fast. Java / scala / golang gives the impression.

Account-created-2-hours-ago, did you ever use Scala, or are you just trying to troll (badly)? :-)

Edit: Oh, right. After reading your other comments, it's obvious that you haven't used Scala.