doobie VS general

Most important/known: * https://http4s.org/ - an HTTP client/server * https://github.com/typelevel/fs2 - streaming * https://github.com/tpolecat/doobie - JDBC

So you need to use PGgeography scala type and import another set of implicits: https://github.com/tpolecat/doobie/blob/main/modules/postgres/src/main/scala/doobie/postgres/pgisgeographyinstances.scala

Developer removing a library integration due to above politics

Doobie removes Quill integration in order to make some sort of political protest. The Quill developers are harassed on Twitter.

The libraries doobie and skunk are more closely associated with cats. They both use cats-effect and fs2 for implementing database connectiona and input-output operations. The doobie library is a wrapper on JDBC, and as such is compatible with many DBMS, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, H2, Oracle... Whereas skunk is specific to PostgreSQL, and is based on using the server protocol of that database.

You may find this issue helpful. tl;dr you can easily make a Transactor with the void Strategy that just ignores the null Connection. But I’m with Rob: at that point, you’re not actually testing anything.

Usual CoC arguments

The "progressive types" that are abusing and harassing people for years now for little to no reason, including simply contributing to a hugely successful library because they have a personal crusade against the original creator. The author of this post in particular has recently been accused of stalking and make a PoC woman fear for her safety in Berlin (where they both live) https://github.com/typelevel/general/issues/112, to which he gaslighted her and attempted (with success, apparently) to have the complaint removed https://github.com/typelevel/general/issues/113. He's also well known for doxxing and defaming people

This issue which I reported, that Travis attempts to have removed. There are others.

Circe user cyber bullied on Twitter for innocuous Github Issue.

After a few years of unpleasantries this lead to a cease-of-desist and a response from someone that later had to leave Typelevel (the "shithead",-"asshole",-"rando",-"part of the reason this industry is so terrible"-incident).