Any Django developers who have made the switch to Play Franework (in Scala), would you share your experience? About to go down that route, and would like to know if it's as great as everyone says, challenges, etc. The usecase is fairly mundane CRUD app, 10-15 interconnected tables.
Django does a lot automatically: authentication, schema creation, ORM, default forms, admin interface. These are things useful to 95% of CRUD apps.
At a certain complexity, nearly every project would have to replace or mostly replace all of those. A full table scan is prohibitive, you want to customize indexes, you want to customize the design of everything, etc.
The Play Framework provides just that: an web MVC framework with basic routing, templating, and HTTP utilities. It's more general and will scale further in project complexity, but you should expect to spend more time figuring stuff out initially.
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Other than that, there are the obvious differences between Python and Scala. Personally, I love, love, love the confidence of static verification, but there are good things about both sides.
