interop-cats VS ScalaPB

Compare interop-cats vs ScalaPB and see what are their differences.

interop-cats

ZIO instances for cats-effect type classes (by zio)

ScalaPB

Protocol buffer compiler for Scala. (by scalapb)
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interop-cats ScalaPB
5 3
156 1,273
0.6% 0.3%
5.4 9.0
about 1 month ago 7 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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interop-cats

Posts with mentions or reviews of interop-cats. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.
  • I have decided to connect my future with Scala (if possible), need little advice
    3 projects | /r/scala | 22 May 2023
    If you're using http4s, don't use ZIO. Yes, ZIO has an interop-cats module, so you can do this. But using http4s means you're working in the conceptual framework the Typelevel ecosystem is based on (and what interop-cats does can be characterized as "describe ZIO's implementation in those terms, so the Typelevel ecosystem can make heads or tails of it.") This is essentially all cost and no benefit: you can't avoid understanding the Typelevel ecosystem if you use http4s (at least, no more than you can by using cats-effect), and you don't get any of the value proposition of ZIO (interop-cats gives you Typelevel typeclass instances for the RIO type alias, which means your error channel is rooted in Throwable, and you're faced with the most complex part of the ZIO ecosystem: ZLayer, which the Typelevel ecosystem doesn't use and doesn't need). Finally the ZIO ecosystem is still quite immature, and this brings us to documentation. There is not (yet!) anything comparable to:
  • Friction-less scala - Tell us what is causing friction in your day-to-day life with Scala
    14 projects | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2021
    These are necessarily oversimplifications. In particular, the ZIO ecosystem offers the relevant instances of cats-effect typeclasses to support use of the ZIO type in the cats-effect ecosystem.
  • Why Typelevel hates ZIO?
    7 projects | /r/scala | 6 Jul 2021
    However, ZIO continues to offer cats-effect type classes and I certainly have no doubt cats-effect 3 continues to benefit from John's contributions. Furthermore, I likewise don't doubt the value of the ZIO ecosystem generally, and John's success in building the ZIO community speaks for itself. I personally have chosen to remain closer to the other, let's say "classical," pure FP ecosystems, partially for historical (or, if you prefer, "sunk cost") reasons, but partially because I'm satisfied the value of the Haskell/Typelevel/PureScript/fp-ts/etc. interplay warrants it.
  • Is it possible to use cats' monad transformers (OptionT, EitherT) with an effect type (F) that has >1 type parameter?
    2 projects | /r/scala | 23 Feb 2021
    It seems that zio/interop-cats faces a similar issue.

ScalaPB

Posts with mentions or reviews of ScalaPB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing interop-cats and ScalaPB you can also consider the following projects:

scodec - Scala combinator library for working with binary data

ScalaBuff - the scala protocol buffers (protobuf) compiler

µPickle - uPickle: a simple, fast, dependency-free JSON & Binary (MessagePack) serialization library for Scala

Pickling

Scrooge - A Thrift parser/generator

Avro4s - Avro schema generation and serialization / deserialization for Scala

Chill - Scala extensions for the Kryo serialization library

validation

cats-effect - The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala

avro-codegen

msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Scala / msgpack.org[Scala]