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the jvm is screaming out for a rails-like web framework that keeps things simple

play 1 was kinda that for a while, but it has been superseded by play 2, which went full scala

you never go full scala

Play 2 was all fun and games until you needed to parse JSON

Isn’t Grails supposed to be that, using Groovy’s dynamic dispatch and monkey-patching the way Rails used Ruby?