Without regard to the tone of the article though, Scala and Lift are worth spending some time with.
Lift still has a ways to go in terms of providing a turnkey stack in the same vein as a Rails or Merb stack. If you thought putting together a Ruby dev environment had a lot of pieces, get ready for Lift...not so much Lift's fault as its the nature of the heavyweight JVM toolset world.
I love scala, as a language, and love rails, as a framework which doesn't make me thing to much - I can see how twitter would like the combo too. Even with the toolchain annoyances I think scala is pretty productive, at least it is for me.
Without regard to the tone of the article though, Scala and Lift are worth spending some time with.
Lift still has a ways to go in terms of providing a turnkey stack in the same vein as a Rails or Merb stack. If you thought putting together a Ruby dev environment had a lot of pieces, get ready for Lift...not so much Lift's fault as its the nature of the heavyweight JVM toolset world.