24 engineers on Hacker News describe using Play Framework first-hand: 9 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Using it for many years already, that's probably why I am most productive in it... We run major projects in production written entirely in Play Java.”
endorse · production · mkurz · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“but painful in Play/Scala. IF you open up the source code of a Play! framework project, there's code so succinct”
regret · personal · neya · 2017-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I maintain 2 semi-big Play 2 web services (written in Java, not Scala) at work, and I just hate it.”
regret · production · 1 yr · Sphax · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it felt to me like if you want to do anything different (e.g. your own implementation of something), you pretty much need to switch to Scala.”
regret · personal · matrix · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I live Play, but that deployment only works for the simplest solutions. Play is very far from deploy script.”
mixed · production · ecopoesis · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(Play makes this worse, I find, because of the way that objects are exposed into your scope”
regret · production · eropple · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Also, we use Play 2.0 at the startup I develop for. I also find that Play is pretty cool to work with.”
endorse · production · jaxytee · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I find it more productive... I must admit I have not had a Play app make it to production yet”
endorse · personal · paullth · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Play heavily at work (eg. 50k SLOC). I love it.”
endorse · production · robfig · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Play at work. It's the only reason I use an Algol dialect after 10 years of writing Lisps.”
endorse · production · mahmud · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am currently using Play (and it's great!)”
endorse · personal · knotty66 · 2011-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Play to develop Sparkmuse. It is far and away my favorite Java and Scala web framework”
endorse · production · netmau5 · 2010-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Play is seriously, seriously good. We used to build on top of a fairly heavy but powerful stack of Spring, Hibernate and Struts2/Wicket.”
endorse · production · dabeeeenster · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an app in prod; here are some numbers: With a single box, we can do about 500 req/s for a dynamic page, accessing the database”
endorse · production · erwanl · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we currently run one Play project in prod on 13.”
neutral · production · pas · 2020-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Play is ok, but for web stuff I think Django does a little better job.”
neutral · production · brianwawok · 2017-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Play framework is way more "raw" than the most of the framework's I've seen.”
neutral · production · merb · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use multiple cloud providers (Digital Ocean and AWS being our primary), Play Framework, AKKA , Ansible for deployment, Shippable for our CI”
neutral · production · doppenhe · 2014-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Play Java in production, in fact it plays a central role in our backend.”
neutral · production · saryant · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Scala just to learn Play framework (I know I could use Java but I thought I'd be adventurous).”
neutral · personal · fat0wl · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Scala for the past 3 months in a play framework app that serves json.”
neutral · production · 0.25 yr · jaxytee · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after some asking, pleading, and convincing the boss we moved to Play 1.x.”
neutral · production · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a fairly complex java system in the same process as play (similar to an in-process database) for performance reasons”
neutral · production · haimez · 2013-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“has used Play 1 and 2 in both Java and Scala for side projects”
neutral · personal · state_machine · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?