cask VS Quill

I want to just block as if there's no tomorrow, no effects / hardcore FP (maybe only something like https://github.com/softwaremill/ox), what would you use? E.g. for http server / db / json ?https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/cask ?

There's the Li Haoyi's ecosystem of tools and libraries that's fun to hack on, has a low entry-bar (with a design philosophy of using the least complex abstractions for the job), and has few libs like requests and cask that may appeal to those liking some python minimalism. That's not the fastest way to learn hardcore FP, that's not the worst either.

Wonder if anyone uses: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/cask

Is play-framework a strong requirement? If not, you might have an easier time building a simple API and serializing JSON with the lihaoyi ecosystem, namely cask as the microframework and uPickle/uJson.

For people who want to get their feet wet with Scala, I highly recommend Cask and the rest of what some people affectionately call “the Singapore stack,” in honor of Li Haoyi, its developer. He emphasizes tasteful use of Scala features with an emphasis on API ergonomics. All of his work is a joy to use.

The documentation points to a pretty outdated example. Can you try with the latest 0.8.3 release?

If you want something really easy and simple, have a look at cask: https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/cask/

Best I can do is Cask: https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/cask/ 😅

https://github.com/zio/zio-quill

This library does exactly what you prescribe. Pretty sure under the hood it's using macros with string templates

But I can connect to Postgress with something like Quill and run sophisticated queries to fetch data. Which then got me thinking, what is the difference between using Spark to connect to the database and using something like Quill or your normal pure JDBC driver?

Just as an example, say you are using quill ( https://getquill.io/ ) to query your database.

I think Quill is the closest to your request: https://github.com/zio/zio-quill

If this still looks like too much hassle, you can always go a bit higher-level and use something like Quill, which is also a powerful approach that uses a different, more ORM-like style.

I'm using it mostly for full-stack web development with ScalaJS (https://www.scala-js.org) in the frontend (https://outwatch.github.io/docs/readme.html) and in the backend with AWS lambdas.

The ecosystem is currently in the process of porting all the libraries to Scala 3. So if you're new to Scala, I'd recommend to start with Scala 2, which is rock-solid and already very powerful.

I never worked with SQLAlchemy. But on the scala database side, popular libraries are Doobie (https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie) and Quill (https://getquill.io). Keep in mind that these are for Scala on the JVM. On the ScalaJS side I'm using the javascript library pg. But I'd like to try if it works well with Prisma soon.

The nice thing about ScalaJS is, that you can use Javascript libraries. And if there are typescript facades, then you can transpile these to Scala and use them in a type safe way (https://scalablytyped.org).

I know that libraries like Scodec and shapeless were rewritten practically from scratch for Scala 3, taking advantage of the next syntax and internals, as well as protoquill - a Scala 3 implementation of Quill.

Akka HTTP, Cats, Quill, ninny, Monix Observable, mill.