mules-http4s VS interop-cats

Compare mules-http4s vs interop-cats and see what are their differences.

mules-http4s

Http4s Caching Implementation (by davenverse)

interop-cats

ZIO instances for cats-effect type classes (by zio)
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mules-http4s interop-cats
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12 156
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4.8 5.4
2 months ago about 1 month ago
Scala Scala
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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mules-http4s

Posts with mentions or reviews of mules-http4s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-10.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mules-http4s and interop-cats you can also consider the following projects:

fs2-grpc - gRPC implementation for FS2/cats-effect

cats-effect - The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala

slick-cats - Cats instances for Slick DBIO

ScalaPB - Protocol buffer compiler for Scala.

sbt-crossproject - Cross-platform compilation support for sbt.

purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript

http4s-micrometer-metrics - Http4s https://http4s.org metrics implementation based on meters4s https://github.com/ovotech/meters4s

ZIO - ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala

Simulacrum - First class syntax support for type classes in Scala