Preface
Back in 2009, I discovered Play by chance while surfing the web. I was surprised at how easy it was to get started with the framework. At the time, I was doing most of my web development using the Seam web framework. Play was a game changer then, and I started to build all my applications using it. Soon enough, I joined Guillaume Bort, the founder of Play, and contributed to the framework.
The framework started to gain more and more traction, though mostly in Europe. Time passed, and we released Play 1.1 and then Play 1.2. Then Guillaume started to envision a complete rewrite of Play using Scala as a core language, giving Play extra power. The goal was to empower Play’s users while keeping the main success ingredients: Play’s simplicity ...
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