circe VS woof

Using Circe so I define some classes that contain my custom Encoder[BusinessObject] in a file and I use that whenever I want to save/store a record, or handle a web request or respose. I also represent my mongo queries as JSON objects that I can freely build then pass to the driver.

Circe adopters should be using Scala https://github.com/circe/circe

If you look at Circe's github repo you will see a very large list of very recognizable companies, that should give you some idea. Circe isn't the ONLY Json parsing library, but it is probably the most popular, so - should give you a rough idea of the types and variety of companies using Scala.

Has the worst error messages I've ever seen for a parser. "Attempt to decode value on failed cursor" is not helpful when all you have is missing fields. Has been an issue for 5 years.

Circe tries to drop Scala 2.12 support in retaliation for not enough users paying them.

Circe: https://circe.github.io/circe/

PR for the same functionality in Scala3: https://github.com/circe/circe/pull/1800

Otherwise I tend to just use ZIO-JSON or Circe both of which have been updated for Scala 3.

I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json

If you're using Scala 3, Woof is a great logging library that can output to json

Here is a fun one - https://github.com/LEGO/woof

Woof!