Toomas Römer is the LiveRebel product lead, and as LiveRebel is built on Play! he and his team have been playing around with it for a while. Now they want to share the experience with the rest of you. The reasons to choose Play! are:
- Jobs – get stuff done in the background
- Templating – intuitive and productive
- URL mappings and redirects – so easy that it is scary
- Testing – halfway enforced for better adoption
- Quick turnaround – happier and productive devs
The reasons against choosing Play! are:
- Application Startup Time Grows with Application Size
- Reloading Library Code Doesn't Work
- It's a Memory Hog
- Upgrades Break Everything
- Death by a Thousand Papercuts
Read up the full scoop in the two posts: