The Play team or someone else could just re-implement the template layer as Groovy once again.
Scala has a lot of nice things going for it, but using it for the Play2 template language was stupid - the benefits do not outweigh the drawbacks at all.
Scala has a lot of nice things going for it, but using it for the Play2 template language was stupid - the benefits do not outweigh the drawbacks at all.
Independently from that, the compilation times will automatically improve when they update a) their SBT version and b) their Scala version. Additionally, Play developers can also refine their own code.