Lift or Play Framework for Scala?

Question

Scala

I have been looking at both frameworks for a long time, I kept thinking what to do. Despite all the reviews about the complexity, I still settled on lift, but the other day I saw that Play 2.0 would be included in the Typesafe stack. I tried to find why not lift, but apart from Pollack's "don't ask why" answer, I did not find anything. Actually the question is, who thinks about the prospects of frameworks? Thank you.

Answer 1

Lift is unlikely to flourish. He and Pollak did not lead very well, and without him there, it seems to me, in general, everything will go into free swimming. And such a complex project needs order - there are many opportunities, many desires, it needs a core, an ideology.
Play made a lot of noise even before Typesafe, and now big bets have been made on it - so it will be strongly pulled out “into people”.
After a year of close work with Lift, writing on it was very pleasant, convenient and fast - I already knew all sorts of pitfalls, etc. Now I’m mastering Play - on the one hand, I have to rethink a lot, on the other hand, everything is somehow more fat-free and I just feel the ideology - it pleases.
In general, if “lightness” with Lift is not achieved, then I would not waste time on it - because of the cloudy prospects.