Unfortunately the rewrite was necessary no matter what tools were used (even if we had stuck with PHP). The existing codebase was bad. Very very bad. And, all things considered 3-4 months for a full rewrite was pretty good.
Whatever downsides there are to the scala/lift decision we have not experienced them yet. Though certainly we may run into them in the future.
Whatever downsides there are to the scala/lift decision we have not experienced them yet. Though certainly we may run into them in the future.