I use Play, and I think it is a good web framework, nowadays.
In the past, however, upgrading to new versions, was annoying, because of pretty big changes in the API. (Don't know if this is what GP had in mind though.)
And even worse (I suppose) for people who were using the different ORMs which have come and gone, instead of plain SQL.
Akka has been annoying too: Adding WebSocket to my project, using Akka, was extremely much more complicated than doing the same in Nodejs (at least looking at the Nodejs docs I've seen).
Today, to me, Play is feature complete and all I want is maintenance updates (and performance optimizations but not so important). And yes, that's how things look right now: Some bigger companies pay an open-source maintainer, so Play gets regular maintenance updates, but not any annoying major API changes (or so I hope), nice.
Play has become boring in a good way? :- ) (Thinking about some "Use boring tech" HN posts.)
In the past, however, upgrading to new versions, was annoying, because of pretty big changes in the API. (Don't know if this is what GP had in mind though.)
And even worse (I suppose) for people who were using the different ORMs which have come and gone, instead of plain SQL.
Akka has been annoying too: Adding WebSocket to my project, using Akka, was extremely much more complicated than doing the same in Nodejs (at least looking at the Nodejs docs I've seen).
Today, to me, Play is feature complete and all I want is maintenance updates (and performance optimizations but not so important). And yes, that's how things look right now: Some bigger companies pay an open-source maintainer, so Play gets regular maintenance updates, but not any annoying major API changes (or so I hope), nice.
Play has become boring in a good way? :- ) (Thinking about some "Use boring tech" HN posts.)