The Lift community seems to be on a roll. They announced Lift 2.0 and just recently Novell announced Pulse based on Lift, the Scala Web Framework. Other companies are benefiting from Lift too, Foursquare and parts of Xerox have adopted Lift as their prefered develop environment for web services. Apparently people are finding that Lift apps are not only as concise as Ruby on Rails applications, but run faster and are easier to maintain too. Developers can get the same productivity as RoR, but with much better performance, maintainability, and operations characteristics.

Version 2.0 comes with a bunch of new features that make it even more attractive. It is faster, slicker, and provides well integrated support for many industry standard tools and services. The Lift community have responded well to the requests from their user base and have provided a much improved platform.

Klaus Havelund at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been using Scala to explore the use of DSLs in shuttle and other space mission launch control applications. Klaus, a Senior Research Scientist at JPL's Laboratory for Reliable Software (LaRS), has compared the benefits of creating DSLs with Python and Scala with the aim of simplifying the writing of reliable launch control programs.