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After I read Bloch’s discussion http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/04/bloch_java_future
I started to think about “Do I have to switch to scala for new web developements” or is java preferred in all cases. What is your opinion ?
Thanks,
If your choice is between Java or Scala, you should probably go with Scala. Spring, Hibernete, etc. works just fine with Scala, so if you can use it right now. Tooling for Scala isn’t too bad in IntelliJ at this point. It’s not like it was 6 months to a year ago.
However, I must caution you… Java is a pretty bloated platform at this point for strictly web development. I was a hardcore Java software architect for 9 years, and have been doing Scala recently, so I have a bias towards these platforms. Even still, if all you want to do is make an app that provides modest functionality over a database, you should just use Grails, or even Rails (although Grails will probably fit your skillset better).
I wouldn’t recommend doing Lift for Scala unless you already know functional programming.