programs-as-values VS pencil

Compare programs-as-values vs pencil and see what are their differences.

programs-as-values

Source code of the programs as values presentation (by pslcorp)
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programs-as-values pencil
2 1
5 46
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3.2 5.3
over 1 year ago 10 months ago
Scala Scala
- Apache License 2.0
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programs-as-values

Posts with mentions or reviews of programs-as-values. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
  • typelevel
    2 projects | /r/scala | 10 Sep 2022
    Go straight to the "programs as values" paradigm and its main data type; IO - I have a small repo with concrete examples and resources here: https://github.com/pslcorp/programs-as-values note however it is not intended as a tutorial on its own since I use it as support for my talks, but the linked resources are helpful.
  • How can effect system ever become mainstream?
    1 project | /r/scala | 26 Jan 2022
    Finally, while I get the point / joke, I just want to show how easy is to write something like a high-low priority scheduler using IO just because we can manipulate programs as values: https://github.com/pslcorp/programs-as-values/blob/main/src/main/scala/example/priority/HighLowPriorityRunner.scala

pencil

Posts with mentions or reviews of pencil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing programs-as-values and pencil you can also consider the following projects:

MacWire - Lightweight and Nonintrusive Scala Dependency Injection Library

skunk - A data access library for Scala + Postgres.

natchez - functional tracing for cats

Monix - Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.

cats-effect-testing - Integration between cats-effect and test frameworks